I think that some "interventionist theisms" are compatible with evolutionary theory. (By "intervention," I don't mean that God violates laws of nature;… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To expect to increase prices and then to maintain them at a higher level by means of a plan which must of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Don't assume that God will always work in your life the way He always has. A sunset is proof that God colors… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“I don't know what's going on in the world," he said. "Everything seemed so reasonable and scientific until I discovered my son… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
It is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I'm still kind of a mess. But I think we all are. No one's got it all together. I don't think you… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has… — F. C. S. Schiller Copy Share Image
Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That part of his body was simply uncontrollable, apparently functioning in accordance to a single law of nature: She existed--he got a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles… Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the… — James Brown Copy Share Image
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
“Remember that your dominating thoughts attract, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart.… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx)… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Remember that your dominating focus attracts, through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most convenient route, their physical counterpart.… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
