George Coyne Quotes

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

George Coyne

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• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Poetry

• It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Faith
  • Religion

• I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Find

• I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Book
  • Success
  • Universe

• The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Active

• To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mind
  • Universe
  • inspirational

• A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Small
  • Faith

• Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Faith

• God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

  

  Walter Martin
  • God
  • Faith
  • Exercise

• The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • God
  • Faith
  • Single

• For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Me
  • Universe
  • Better

• At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • God
  • Strong
  • Faith

• The universe is indifferent to our fates. This was the crushing burden that the character took with him as he struggled through the surf toward survival or extinction. The universe just does not give a shit.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Survival

• To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • True
  • Faith

• I was just writing songs because, if a song shows up, you've gotta write it. I didn't know what to do with them. I didn't have any faith in my voice.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

  

  Daniel Hope
  • Work
  • Great
  • Music

• I questioned the blind faith demanded by my religion, which was Islam.

  

  Art Malik
  • Faith

• I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

  

  Mary Beard

• I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Good
  • Christian

• Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Afraid
  • Love Is
  • Destruction

• And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Influence
  • Changes
  • Harmony

• Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

  

  George Coyne
  • Faith
  • Universe