Paul Davies Quotes
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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I'm not someone who feels settled.
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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… why God made irreconcilable Good and the means of good.
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Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
