Paul Davies Quotes

In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

Paul Davies

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

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• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
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• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  

  Babe Ruth
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• I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
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• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
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• I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.

  

  Sam Trammell
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• Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Good
  • Day
  • Makeup

• Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Diversity
  • Nation
  • Fabric

• I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Perfect
  • Woman
  • Eye

• I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Wish
  • Look

• Small towns are the worst for getting recognised.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Small
  • Worst
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• I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.

  

  Flume
  • People
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  • Questions

• I don't do drugs. I never have taken any drugs. I don't believe in them.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Never

• A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Energy

• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Real

• We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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• Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.

  

  Caroline Fraser
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• Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.

  

  Aristotle
  • Success
  • Virtue
  • Goodness

• Doing Good is a simple and universal vision. A vision to which each and every one of us can connect and contribute to its realisation. A vision based on the belief that by doing good deeds, positive thinking and affirmative choice of words, feelings and actions, we can enhance goodness in the world.

  

  Shari Arison
  • World
  • Action
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• So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Work
  • Why
  • Dream

• We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Opinion
  • Slave
  • Cooperation

• I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.

  

  Rich Eisen
  • People
  • Football
  • Celebrity

• In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Belief
  • Virtue
  • Healthy