Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is not instant there will come a metallic hardening and a corrupting of the guidance of God.
The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.
There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
My worth to God publicly is measured by what I really am in my private life.” Oswald Chambers
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it. ... Thus, it is the communication process which is at the core of the vitality and integrity of science.
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.
Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.
Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
A universe that came from nothing in the big bang will disappear into nothing at the big crunch. Its glorious few zillion years of existence not even a memory.
The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
