"No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science."

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Source : "Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

Julian Baggini

#Cosmos Quotes #Failing Quotes #Fractions Quotes

“Moore's Law is really a thing about human activity, it's about vision, it's about what you're allowed to believe. Because people are really limited by their beliefs, they limit themselves by what they allow themselves to believe about what is possible.”
“People would lambaste me or attack me, and I'd be like, "I'm being honest! I'm the one person that's being honest and sincere about what I'm doing." The rest of the world doesn't want to admit the fakery of entertainment on TV, but I love the fake. I think fake is beautiful.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I've been noble since they took you to the hospital," he said through his teeth. "I'm tired of it. I don't eat, I don't sleep, I can't even work. I remember your voice moaning in my ear like the cry of the damned while I was having you," he bit off, bending to her mouth. "You couldn't get enough of me. You couldn't get close enough to me. Your face when I fulfilled you....I ache every time I think about it.”

Source : Diana Palmer (2012). “Lawless”, p.286, Harlequin
“When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.”
“To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.”
“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.”

Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
“Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.”
“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.”

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