"Even if we don't have a precise idea of exactly what took place at the beginning, we can at least see that the origin of the universe from nothing need not be unlawful or unnatural or unscientific."

-- Paul Davies

#Ideas Quotes #Religion Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.”
“He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.”

Source : Thomas Hughes, Andrew Sanders (2008). “Tom Brown's Schooldays”, p.228, Oxford Paperbacks
“Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.”
“The viewer is yet another eye that is part of the compact that makes a photograph what it is.”
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.”
“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”

Source : "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, (p. 193), 2007.
“Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.”
“Self-control is the only possible road to character development”

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