"My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from DNA of the first reproducing species ... [In fact] the only reason which I have for beginning to think of believing in a First Cause god is the impossibility of providing a naturalistic account of the origin of the first reproducing organisms."

-- Antony Flew

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dna Quotes

“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

Source : "Kate Moss's motto gives comfort to 'pro-anorexic' community" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.
“It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.”
“Be a physical chemist, an analytical chemist, an organic chemist, if you will; but above all, be a chemist.”

Source : "The Life of Ira Remsen" by F.H. Getmen, (pp. 70-71), 1940.
“In terms of my peer group, nobody's parents were dying of old age. There was no dialogue to have among friends. I had that experience, and then 10 years later, I started thinking about writing about it. It's obviously an indelible thing when that happens, and I wasn't looking for material at the time or anything; it just started becoming relevant to me.”
“Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.”
“We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,”

Source : "Patch Adams". www.imdb.com. 1998.
“Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.”
“Toxic remnants of war represent a profound challenge for the protection of public health and the restoration of the environment in countries affected by conflict.”

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