"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."

-- Sidney Altman

#Son Quotes #Poor Quotes #Montreal Quotes

“Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.”
“My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.”
“My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.”
“I think there's a passion for God like never before”
“there are hundreds who don't know the difference between a cleansing cream and an emollient - which to our minds is practically the same as being illiterate.”
“To completely trust in Allah is to be like a child who knows deeply that even if he does not call for the mother, the mother is totally aware of his condition and is looking after him.”
“Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.”
“If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.”

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