George Smoot Quotes
There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
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It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.
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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.
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You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.
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I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.
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'Reign' is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. 'The Dead They Don't Come Back,' which is the last song on the album, I wrote when I was 20, and 'Harlem River' I just wrote last year. It spans from 2007 to 2012.
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I'm such a foodie.
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No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.
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I already had high blood pressure. I have hypertension. And I think the chemo was just too much for my kidneys. And they went into failure. And that was September 12th of 2008. And the doctor rushed me right to the hospital.
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
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There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.
