"I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science."

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Source : Heinz R. Pagels (1988). “The dreams of reason: the computer and the rise of the sciences of complexity”, Simon & Schuster

Heinz Pagels

#Commitment Quotes #Science Quotes #Reason Quotes

“It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.”
“Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.”
“I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.”
“the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.”
“Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.”

Source : "DA MAN Exclusive: Joe Manganiello Of 'True Blood'". Interview with M. Berlian, daman.co.id. September 20, 2012.
“Every good work should have at least ten meanings.”
“I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves,”

Source : "Mannequins Give Shape to a Venezuelan Fantasy". www.nytimes.com. November 6, 2013.
“Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.”

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