"I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make life too dull for me as a scientist. ... I hope, and believe, that the Space Telescope might make the Big Bang cosmology appear incorrect to future generations, perhaps somewhat analogous to the way that Galileo's telescope showed that the earth-centered, Ptolemaic system was inadequate."

-- John N. Bahcall

#Believe Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Fate Quotes

“I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.”
“Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.”
“You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach.”
“I got really paranoid, burning every song onto three CDs and hiding them in various places around the house just in case I got burgled and there was, y'know, a fire in my bedroom. I told friends where I was hiding them in case I was killed.”
“I never used to believe in fate. I used to think you make your own life and then you call it fate. That's why I call it irony.”
“I'm not taking maternity leave from 'Big Brother.' I e-mailed my boss over there this weekend and I said, 'Don't worry. I can still do the show!”
“The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.”
“I think abortion is murder.”

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