Joseph Murray Quotes

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.

Joseph Murray

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Literature
  • Memory
  • Down

• I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Universe

• The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Problem
  • Rap
  • Nobody

• I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Always
  • Popular
  • Really

• Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Learning
  • Depression
  • Memory

• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  

  Sai Baba
  • God
  • Nature
  • Night

• For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Important
  • Love
  • Universe

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Women
  • Think

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Order

• For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Better

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Universe

• But suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Universe

• Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Universe
  • Marriage
  • Kiss

• Even if I stumble on to the absolute truth of any aspect of the universe, I will not realise my luck and instead will spend my life trying to find flaws in this understanding - such is the role of a scientist.

  

  Brian Schmidt
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Truth

• In the end, all that time I spent in the 'Star Wars' universe fostered galaxies of creativity and made me a better person here on Earth, because it taught me that everyone counts. That's why I can sincerely and with a straight face say: 'May the Force be with you.'

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Time
  • Why
  • May

• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Money
  • Fight

• We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Confidence
  • Morality
  • Sing

• I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.

  

  Joseph Murray
  • Universe
  • Memory
  • Order