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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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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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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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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MIRRORMENTBirds are flowers flyingand flowers perched birds.
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I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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Anytime anybody does anything - unless it's in the realm of the obviously awful, which is fun too in a different way - it is in many ways a success.
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I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
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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.
