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

• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• 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
  • Camera

• 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

• Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• 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 always had a passion for writing, but I always visualized other artist singing my lyrics, I never visualized myself.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Writing
  • Passion
  • Singing

• My songs are about who I am.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Songs

• The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Trying to get a common set of trading rules right down to very simple things like paperless customs arrangements and telecommunications services and all those things that will help lower the cost and increase the ease of doing business across the region.

  

  Andrew Robb
  • Business
  • Rules
  • Get

• 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