Paul Davies Quotes

Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.

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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Culture
  • Fall
  • Language

• There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Musicians

• But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Think
  • Pain
  • Loved

• I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • World
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Living
  • Prison
  • Walls

• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Great
  • Understand
  • India

• People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

  

  Zola Jesus
  • People
  • Dark
  • Understand

• Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Exchange
  • Mediums

• Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Together
  • Study

• This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Growing
  • Islam

• I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Progress
  • Name
  • Determined

• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Gullible

• I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

  

  Emma Lazarus
  • Writing

• As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • You
  • Learn
  • Pressure

• I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Hockey

• In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work.

  

  James Meade Kutless
  • Work
  • Mind
  • War

• Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Mind
  • Everyday
  • Lying