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

• Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Truth
  • Existence
  • Postulate

• Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Humanity
  • Religion
  • Christ

• When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Think
  • Sad
  • Animals

• In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs — not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • World
  • Book
  • Rest

• If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Write
  • Understand
  • Torture

• 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