Paul Davies Quotes

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

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• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Towel

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Money
  • Class
  • Far

• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Anxiety

• You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kitchen

• 'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May
  • King

• 'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line

  

  Anne Rice
  • Vampire

• When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Die

• Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Humanity

• I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Action

• When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

  

  David Gest
  • Worry

• Marriage is a great institution.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Great
  • Marriage

• Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

  

  Al Boliska
  • Moments
  • Travel

• People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Comedy

• Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • Heaven
  • Sacrifice
  • Paradise

• We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.

  

  John Muir

• The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • She
  • Soul

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Father

• Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Men
  • Humanity
  • Humble

• Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean is to abandon humanity.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Humanity
  • Faults
  • Mediocrity

• The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Humanity
  • Unfortunate