"My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

George Coyne

#Data Quotes #Looks Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.
“I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and sexy and appealing and charming. So a sexy girl wrapped in a sheet is a sexy girl, and an un-sexy girl in a low-cut dress is still an un-sexy girl.”
“We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.”
“I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.”
“Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.”
“If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?”
“You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.”

Source : "Agony and Excesses of Stardom". San Francisco Chronicle: p. 16, March 4, 1986.
“Holiness is not freedom from temptation, but power to overcome temptation.”

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