...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the first?" Asked Holmes, with some asperity. "To the man of precised, scientific mind the work of Monsieur Bertillon mu...
Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be a reduction of transcendence coupled with an unswerving dedication to immanence. Let metaphysics and science p...
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what ...
True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as freedom FROM, it isn't simply a matter of being forced now to be good, against our wills and without our cooperation, but a matter of bei...
There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE...
Ah, grief makes us precise!
Art is often valuable precisely because it isn't a sensible way to make money.
It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
Many classical musicians lack pulse and rhythmical strength and precision, so for us it was very important to acquire and learn those.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do.
