Paul Davies Quotes
Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.
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A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
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Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
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What it is now is basically I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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What turn of body, what of lust Undiced? So we've worshipped you a little More than Christ.
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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a Theatrical Show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the Glory of it.
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So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
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Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.
