Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

As you know, a theory in physics is not useful unless it is able to predict underlined effects which we would otherwise expect.

Richard Dawkins

Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism.

Richard Dawkins

We cannot prove that there is no God, but we can safely conclude the He is very, very improbable indeed.

Richard Dawkins

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

William S. Burroughs

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.

William S. Burroughs

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

Ulrich Beck

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Richard Dawkins

Not a single one of your ancestors died young. They all copulated at least once.

Richard Dawkins

A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.

Rob Reiner

I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

William Faulkner

It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible

Robert Pozen

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

Robert Plant

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

Sarah McLachlan

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

Santiago Calatrava

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

Vivien Leigh

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

Ursula K. Le Guin

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

Sandra Day O'Connor

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day --an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.

Dean Gilmour

There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.

Robert Winston

It is possible that strong levels of belief in God, gods, spirits or the supernatural might have given our ancestors considerable comforts and advantages.

Wanda Peterson

I don't feel like it's right because I feel like all our ancestors came over here and they had to become legal citizens. Why shouldn't every one else? I don't care who you are.

William Phelps

I am glad my ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, but I am gladder that there are nine generations between us.

Winona LaDuke

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

Ron Banks

I realize many of my ancestors fought so I could have the opportunities I have today, and I appreciate them for the sacrifices they made for us.

Robert Southwell

I read the label underneath, That telleth me whereto I must; I see the sentence eke that saith 'Remember, man, that thou art dust!' But yet, alas, but seldom I Do think indeed that I must die - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates ar

Carl Zimmer

I read a lot of scientific papers on the history of evolution and spent time talking to scientists. I started to write it in the spring of 2004 and wanted the book to look at the biggest questions people have about human origins, such as what were the first hominids and how did our ancestors evolve to walk upright?