Francis Collins Quotes
The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
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I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.
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Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
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In a political situation where tyranny reigns and rebellion is not tolerated, few men and women will have the luxury of going beyond the stance of the rebel.
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'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'
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We are therefore driven by both basic survival instincts and rational thought.
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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
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When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.
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The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.
