Quotes of: Francis Keyword

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Timothy Radcliffe

The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god.

William Robertson Smith

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

William Robertson Smith

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

Leonard Susskind

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

Lisa Randall

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Maggie Gallagher

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

Miroslav Volf

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

Paul Nurse

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

Luther Burbank

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Emma Bonino

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Erma Bombeck

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

Simon Newcomb

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

Eric Holder

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.

Robin Marantz Henig

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

Karl Barth

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

It may be that we live in an endless universe, both in space and in time. And there've been Bangs in the past, and there will be Bangs in the future.

Neil Turok

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

Peter Agre

The future of time, of how it's won or lost, endured or enjoyed, expanded or compressed, will depend on how it's valued, not how it's measured.

Walter Kirn