"Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it."

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Source : Melanie Phillips (2013). “The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power”, p.79, Encounter Books

Melanie Phillips

#Atheist Quotes #Desire Quotes #World Quotes

“Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.”
“Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.”
“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.”
“I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things”
“I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?”

Source : Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation.”

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