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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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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I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting.
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I've never read 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe,' but his later works are about whether God is real.
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I only got into show business because I quit football.
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I would love to collaborate with Chance the Rapper. I love his lyrics and his sound and everything.
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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.
