"As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body."

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Source : "It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton" by Jim Al-Khalili, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

Jim Al-Khalili

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“He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.”
“We all have personalities, but in football a lot of times you don't talk about that because you want to focus more on the grit and grind of the season, instead of people's personal styles or worldly habits.”

Source : "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.
“Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.”

Source : Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.
“You know, the world’s not running out of oil. There’s all kinds of oil left in all kinds of places. …We’re never going to run out of oil. But what the world is going to run out of, indeed, what the world has already run out of, is the oil you can afford to burn.”
“You can tell a lot about a person by whether or not they're a transvestite.”
“It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of evidence in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and that is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness. . . . We are not saved by the love we exercise, but by the love we trust.”

Source : "Dynamics of Spiritual Life".
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”

Source : "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". Book by Neil Postman, 1985.
“A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.”

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