Paul Davies Quotes

The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

Paul Davies

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• We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Long
  • First
  • China

• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• Smart people tend to know what is happening in a group situation and how to deal with others in the most effective way. They ask good questions, listen to what others are saying, and stay engaged in conversations intently.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • Smart

• If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Rest

• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Interested
  • Gossips

• I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and musical that I could get my hands on, so it was something that was a part of me from a very early age.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • School
  • Age
  • Drama

• Our aim is to establish El Cartel as not just another tequila but part of the club and party lifestyle. There are several songs where I mention the brand name, and a lot of these party songs go hand in hand with the concept of Cartel Tequila.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Party
  • Hand
  • Name

• I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • You
  • Travel
  • Successful

• Its designers drew inspiration from three related traditions: the architecture of the Mughals' central Asian homeland; the buildings erected by earlier Muslim rulers of India, especially in the Delhi region; and the much older architectural expertise of India itself.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Inspiration
  • Architecture

• Oh, I think it was like when, you know, Cupid throws an arrow and hits you. First, there was this Mexican band, dressed up with bows and arrows. They were playing some funky weird music,, I didn't know it yet, but it was like Lee Perry, George Clinton, and Sun Ra mixed up, Mexican funky.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

  

  Jack London

• Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Silly
  • Acceptance

• The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Sun

• Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified...

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Person
  • Attitude

• Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Stories

• Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.

  

  O. J. Brigance
  • Good
  • Done
  • Society

• The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

  

  Paul Davies
  • Law
  • Question
  • Physics