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- Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
- Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they…
- At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they…
- A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of…
- [N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea.…
- My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas…
- A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
- Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who…
- On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous…
- How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
- What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us…
- There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten…
- A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
- The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in…
- If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
- If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling…
- While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and…
More New Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin