Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

Marvin Minsky

We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.

Russell D. Moore

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Reinhold Niebuhr

It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.

Randy Schekman

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Robert South

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Robert South

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running

Steve Aylett

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

Martin Lewis Perl

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

Martin Lewis Perl

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

Martin Ryle

We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing political debate and for the economy.

Marcus du Sautoy

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Matthew Simpson

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.

Nigel Kennedy

If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

Nigel Kennedy

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

Nigel Kennedy

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

Ralph Merkle

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

Charles J. Chaput

It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

Cornelius Van Til

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

John Ortberg

I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

Jimmy Swaggart