The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
The problem with God is that we want him to reveal Himself, and He doesn't. We will never understand God.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
Reading history, one rarely gets the feeling of the true nature of scientific development, in which the element of farce is as great as the element of triumph.
I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.
I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
