"As long as every question is answered by the word "God," scientific inquiry is simply impossible."

-- Robert Green Ingersoll

#Long Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Inquiry Quotes

“Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.”
“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.”

Source : "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.
“I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.”
“In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.”
“Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.”
“When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.”
“Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of October, I accidentally dug up one while turning over some garden earth. I was surprised, naturally, when one of the clods heaved over on its die and there, in some annoyance, sat at toad.”
“When you know somethingâ€™s wrong, but you donâ€™t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.”

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