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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The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.
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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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I think what defines our band is really that, you know, we're just living our dream and making records that we love and having a good time.
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The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
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Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.
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If you give a party, you better give it right.
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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
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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.
