Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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• Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

  

  O. Henry
  • Existence
  • Conversation
  • Few

• Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Support
  • Democracy
  • Existence

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Argument
  • Taught
  • Proof

• In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Research
  • Evidence
  • Details

• All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Why
  • Existence
  • Behavior

• I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Balance

• Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Ideas
  • Existence
  • Minds

• I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Career

• Being lost is worth the being found.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Lost
  • Found
  • Irony

• I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Why
  • Search
  • Force

• That is the evidence. We look to the Iranians to desist from anything that they have been involved in the past, and also to use their very considerable influence with Hezbollah to ensure that this continued use of Hezbollah technology stops in Iraq.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Past
  • Technology
  • Evidence

• Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • God
  • Faith
  • Impossible

• The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• Fermat said he had a proof.

  

  Andrew Wiles
  • Said
  • Proof

• Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Atheism

• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Future
  • Past
  • Existence

• In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Information

• Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Men
  • Lost

• Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated entities which round out and simplify our account of the flux of existence... The conceptional scheme of physical objects is [likewise] a convenient myth, simpler than the literal truth and yet containing that literal truth as a scattered part.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Existence
  • Irrational
  • Introduction

• We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Hurry up Gene, I got a date tonight.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Tonight
  • Gene

• No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

  

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz
  • Existence
  • Found
  • Evidence