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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It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
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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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The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.
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What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd have, like, this kind of freak show - artists and art dealers coming over. And these are the people I feel like I learned from.
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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.
