Beryl Markham Quotes
All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
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'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.
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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
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The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.
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The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes-our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by 'the death of God' and of the subordinate god, Eros.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
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But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.
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Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]
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For me there’s no good or bad, as long as I’m feeling everything to the greatest degree, whether it’s sadness or happiness.
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I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
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All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.
