"When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that."

-- Francis Collins

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“The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.”
“I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.”
“travel is compost for the mind”
“After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often.”
“We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"”
“Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.”
“We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.”
“Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.”

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