"We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth."

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Source : Kitty Ferguson (1994). “The Fire in the Equations”

Kitty Ferguson

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“Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.”
“Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.”
“Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.”
“First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
“Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.
“You can never win as a sight-seer. Somebody else, more often than not the first person you meet when you get back home, has been there before you.”
“With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.”
“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.”

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