"Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties when we have admitted that because matter cannot be eternal and self-existent it must have been created."

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Source : James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.376, Courier Corporation

James Clerk Maxwell

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“Actors always have opinions.”
“People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.”

Source : "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
“That spin became so violent, it was hard to know how to get out of it. I was able to get it under control and break the speed of sound...I could feel myself break the speed of sound. I could feel the air building up and then I hit it.”

Source : "‘Fearless Felix’ Falls 24 Miles To Earth" by Chuck Squatriglia, www.wired.com. October 14, 2012.
“A spiritually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.”
“I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.”
“Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history's greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, "I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue."”
“Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.”
“Let us not become the evil that we deplore.”

Source : Statement in Opposition to H.J. Res. 64, delivered 14 September 2001

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