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People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.
I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.
Possibilities play a much bigger role in thinking than most people believe. Without possibilities you cannot make progress.
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.
It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.
Democracy needs to start with an open Presidential debate. So come on out and let's take back the promise of our democracy.
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.
I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.
I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.
Given one well-trained physician of the highest type and he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
In general, drug companies are reasonably good at developing new treatments, and there's also a lot of good in the industry.
I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.
We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.
Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely.
Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.
This is not to isolate Israel but rather to hold Israel to a higher standard that we also have to hold ourselves to as well.
The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.
Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.
The teacher, when she begins work in our schools, must have a kind of faith that the child will reveal himself through work.
The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.
A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.
Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.
No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live.