Calvin Miller Quotes
Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
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The process of discovery in my field is very incremental. But there are moments when you realize you know something about the world nobody else knows. That's extraordinarily exhilarating.
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Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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Sex is a discovery.
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I am a great believer in luck.
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The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.
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It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like that. The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.
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Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.
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If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.
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I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.
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For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home
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The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.
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Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.
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I'm a big believer in the Wii. I love the physicality of the Wii controller, and how you can get the feeling of throwing a bowling ball or swinging a golf club. Those are the kinds of games I really like.
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The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.
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Canada's sovereignty over Hans Island is longstanding and based on a solid foundation in international law. This includes the discovery of the Arctic islands by British explorers and subsequent devolution to Canada.
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The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.
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No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.
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In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity.
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Can we pray for the reelection of George Bush?
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Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
