Paul Davies Quotes

It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"

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• Use your heart to love somebody. And If your heart is big enough, use your heart to love EVERYBODY.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Use

• With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Hand

• Bosnia and Herzegovina has done what many said was impossible even a year ago, let alone at the start of my mandate in May 2002. For the country now stands at the gates of Europe, ... This is a truly remarkable achievement for a country as war-torn as Bosnia and Herzegovina was just 10 years ago.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Country
  • Done
  • May

• Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.

  

  Andrew James Hartley
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Reason

• She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.

  

  B. Joseph Pine II
  • Goods

• The quality of news coverage has diminished, because giants of the print media are no longer being nurtured properly.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Quality

• A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Honor
  • Nation
  • Heroes

• Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Business
  • Government
  • Esteem

• The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Religious
  • Geniuses

• People lose in trade, and because our social safety nets here are so thin to begin with, the resistance is greater than it is in some of the other industrial countries.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • People
  • Lose
  • Trade

• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

  

  William Congreve
  • Music
  • inspirational
  • Charm

• Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Words
  • Sweet
  • Cases

• Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.

  

  William Gibson
  • Cases
  • Arriving

• Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Different
  • Black
  • Lucky

• It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"

  

  Paul Davies
  • Cases
  • Exceptional