Quotes of: Isaac Keyword

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.

Nikola Tesla

Neither our oceans nor our radar nor our fighters can keep us intact through another major war.

Philip Morrison

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard?

Calculating God

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

A Compend of the Institutes of the Christian Religion

Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

Culture and Value

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

Culture and Value

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

Culture and Value

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos