Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Jump
  • Clothes
  • Pool

• What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Think
  • Pretty

• In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Well
  • Snake
  • Worm

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • House
  • You
  • Try

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Drama
  • Romantic
  • Comfort

• I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Power
  • Think
  • Down

• Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Want
  • Room
  • Clients

• It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Energy
  • Positive
  • Clear

• I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Believe
  • Facts
  • I Believe

• Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Wind

• That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People

• I would estimate that the number of programs it breaks in the world will be less than 10. As long as one of those 10 isn't CGI.pm, we're probably okay.

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Long

• Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Children
  • Grandparents

• If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great
  • May
  • American

• White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • Faith

• 5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Real

• Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

  

  Pope Francis
  • People
  • Truth

• My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Religion

• Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Truth
  • Religion
  • Sense