"When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me."

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Source : "Reconciling Science and Religion". "Awake!" magazine, June 8, 2002.

Francis Collins

#Beautiful Quotes #Moving Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.”
“Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.”

Source : Tom Holt (2002). “The Second Tom Holt Omnibus”
“It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.”
“I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!”
“The more you give to others, the more you get in return.”
“Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent of, according to some critics. While all these families of views have been victimized in these ways, Consequentialists have gotten the worst of it. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Kant and Aristotle are acknowledged to be great philosophers, and we tend to read the greats sympathetically, while Consequentialism is a family of views not rooted in the work of a single great man to whom this kind of deference is owed.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination.”

Source : "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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