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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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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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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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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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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So far we don't have a confirmation about their outcome from the Russian side.
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My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.
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... it's been a perpetual discovery, my life. A miracle.
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
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We murder to dissect.
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Every believer is God's miracle.
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At any one time there is a natural tendency among physicists to believe that we already know the essential ingredients of a comprehensive theory . But each time a new frontier of observation is broached we inevitably discover new phenomena which force us to modify substantially our previous conceptions. I believe this process to be unending, that the delights and challenges of unexpected discovery will continue always.
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My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
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Sleep is no mean art.
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You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.
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Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
