Quotes of: Pope-john-paul-ii Keyword

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Kary Mullis

You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

Kary Mullis

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Kary Mullis

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.

Martin Fleischmann

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.

Martin Fleischmann

I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

Mary Karr

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

Martin Luther

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

Tony Campolo

We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol.

John Ortberg

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

Rowan Williams

Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?

Queen Rania of Jordan

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

Tony Campolo

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.

Daniel Berrigan

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Mitt Romney

In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivative...

Otto Wallach

A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.

P. J. O'Rourke

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Ellen Swallow Richards

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Matthew Henry

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

George Fox

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Matthew Simpson

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

Rob Bell