"If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?"

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Source : Martin Gardner (2005). “The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings”, p.136, Courier Corporation

Martin Gardner

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“Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.”

Source : "Ruth Negga: 'I'm not in any rush to get anywhere'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.
“Truth is neither in the scripture nor in the words of prophets. It is in your heart, feel it, discover it and expand with it.”
“A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldnâ€™t even be rude to evil vampires whoâ€™d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.”
“The realization that reason and anti-reason, sense and nonsense, design and chance, consciousness and unconsciousness, belong together as necessary parts of a whole - this was the central message of Dada.”
“When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.”
“Religious faith, indeed, relates to that which is above us, but it must arise from that which is within us.”

Source : Josiah Royce (1911). “William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life”
“The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.”

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