Paul Davies Quotes

If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention.

Paul Davies

• Earth
• Attention
• Civilization
• Ancient
• Galaxy
• Beacons

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• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Change
  • Attention

• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • World
  • Attention
  • Influence

• As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Actor

• I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Believe
  • Support

• I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Like

• The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Night
  • Attention
  • Eyes

• I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Morning

• I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Song
  • Attention
  • Area

• One of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Earth
  • Sunset

• It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great
  • High
  • Earth

• Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Live
  • Earth

• Breakfast had been prepared by the kitchen maid, an indifferent performer who had used the scorched earth policy on the bacon again.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Earth
  • Kitchen
  • Breakfast

• I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • Music
  • Attention

• When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • World
  • Future

• The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

  

  Lefty Gomez
  • Success

• If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed, then these are going to be towards the center of the galaxy. That is the place to look if you think there are ancient civilizations that have made beacons or some other way of attracting our attention.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Earth
  • Attention
  • Civilization