"When people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if IÂ find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. IÂ think that's a good way to live."

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Source : Discover Magazine (Volume 27, No. 7) Interview, July 2006.

Lisa Randall

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Man is a child of his environment”
“Neither the circle without the line, nor the line without the point, can be artificially produced. It is, therefore, by virtue of the point and the Monad that all things commence to emerge in principle. That which is affected at the periphery, however large it may be, cannot in any way lack the support of the central point.”

Source : John Dee (2000). “The Hieroglyphic Monad”, p.9, Weiser Books
“Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.”
“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.”
“I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified”
“We was going to get you a birthday cake, but we figured you'd drop it.”
“I like playing roulette, I like dice. I grew up with gamblers.”
“I'm a big fan of the artist Parra, and the way he draws naked women is really cool to see. It doesn't look perverted, it just looks really awesome.”

Source : "Take Cover: Toro Y Moi: Underneath the Pine". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 10, 2011.

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