Francis Collins Quotes

There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.

Francis Collins

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• But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Chemistry

• My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Mom

• I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Balance

• Having been selected to be an author in the World Book, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information, because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias - they let me in.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• Just because you believe it doesn’t make it so.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Believe

• I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember - something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.

  

  Patrick White
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Remember

• Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Fighting

• Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

  

  Doug Henning
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wonder

• I didn't quite believe I was pretty for a long time. I never thought about it.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

  

  Christian Scott
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Parents

• I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

  

  Edward Fitzgerald
  • God
  • Believe
  • Miracle

• I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

  

  Anthony Fauci
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• I am the youngest of four siblings, and we're all so close. I don't know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most!

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Sister

• I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't like to sound immodest, but I believe in what I can do. Sometimes it's been frustrating because I haven't gotten to bat; if you're on the bench, and an unimaginative person doesn't see you as right for a certain role, you don't get the chance to hit the home run.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Believe
  • Home

• Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Wonder

• Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Think
  • Intelligence
  • Her

• I love clothes! I shop everywhere, but I like Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus. It's a wide range. I'm from California, and I love the Pasadena Flea Market.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Forever
  • California

• Instead of standing in the way, technology is increasingly an enabler of emotion. A message at the wrong time at dinner can turn a gourmet dish into something insipid because of the interruption.

  

  Om Malik
  • Time
  • Technology

• There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.

  

  Francis Collins
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Existence