Quotes of: Pope Keyword

Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

The Substance of Faith: And Other Cotton Patch Sermons

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

Pope Joan

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

The Unity of Science

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Marie Curie

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Michael Novak

By the late 1980s, there was the beginning of awareness about a significant global landmine problem, and small steps were being taken to try to deal with the problem.

Jody Williams

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

Oriana Fallaci

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.

Otto Wallach

My aim is to argue that the universe can come into existence without intervention, and that there is no need to invoke the idea of a Supreme Being in one of its numerous manifestations.

Peter Atkins

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.

Philip Abelson

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

Paul Farmer

The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.

Paul Farmer

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Paul Farmer

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

Paul Farmer

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

Paul Farmer

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

Paul Farmer

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.

Peter D. Mitchell

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Pope Paul VI

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

Pope Paul VI

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

Pope Paul VI