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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH When religion ceases to be speculative and become factual and "true", it will become science. Scienc...
CHRISTINA ENGELA When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Scien...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-t...
NATHAN MYHRVOLD I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would li...
LUCY HAWKING In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react t...
PETER HIGGS Political Correctness is a form of cowardice which allows for the evasion of both asking and answeri...
TROY J. GAINEY Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disa...
RAMEZ NAAM That class will get them used to answering that type of question.
GAYLE WEAVER I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're ...
JOLENE BLALOCK Science without religion is lame, religion without science is
blind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
JOAN COLLINS Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look a...
PETER ATKINS You are tired of always needing answers. Always answering questions. Always asking questions that de...
THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS Earned value ... is like being a Methodist. It's a religion, it's a good religion, it's a wonderful ...
ED MEAGHER Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage...
VINOD KHOSLA If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Not only are we answering questions, but other developers answer questions, too.
GREG ISAACS These hearings are going to be a stark contrast to the Roberts hearings. Can you picture her answeri...
ROGER PILON Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation...
PETER DIAMANDIS Everybody is focused on just providing information and answering questions about the contract.
CHARLES BICKERS If you did nothing improper, you should not be concerned about answering these questions.
DICK DEGUERIN But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond ti...
ALFRED DE VIGNY I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON She is doing well. She was answering questions by wiggling her toes.
LAURA WILKINS In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and co...
VIKRAM SETH You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and...
PEACHES GELDOF We demographers are hardly a wild and crazy lot. Most of what we'll be doing is answering questions ...
KEN JOHNSON She chose to leave that forum and not answer questions at the same time her colleagues were answerin...
JOE WIEGAND In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Tim...
ALDRIN MATHEW There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Science is a trigger of changes of civilization.
Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
TOBA BETA There's no way that all the marijuana being grown in the province is being used here.
KELVIN GOERTZEN ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has AL...
STEVE GLEASON It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works.
ISAAC ASIMOV Do not be afraid of being free thinkers! If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science ...
LORD KELVIN I wanted to be a journalist because I like to ask questions. And I like the idea that someone might ...
GWEN IFILL The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Science is a trigger of changes of civilization.
Religion is the failsafe of science performan...
TOBA BETA I expect this job to be something where I'm answering questions and trying to provide solutions for ...
RON LANGLEY Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of...
TED CHIANG Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion giv...
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GERMANY KENT We have one pharmacist every day who is doing nothing but answering questions about Medicare.
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AMIT RAY Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion give...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. Thi...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
LEO TOLSTOY He has been involved in profound questions questions of religion, of life and death, of art versu...
MARK ROSENTHAL Think about what you want the other person to know so you don't spend the entire interview simply an...
KAREN FRIEDMAN All good thinking is a matter of asking and answering three elementary questions. What is being said...
OS GUINNESS Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
HENRI BERGSON Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science
HENRI BERGSON People know your tragedies and they treat you like
you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering thes...
RICK YUNE A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
P.D. OUSPENSKY And did not the degeneration of religion begin with reason itself? As Santayana says, the process of...
LIN YUTANG We have received correspondence from Hughie, we've responded to that answering his questions and hav...
PAUL STRUTHERS The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions......
NATHAN COLLINS One increasingly hears rumors of a reconciliation between science and religion. In major news magazi...
SEAN CARROLL Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
DAN BROWN The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of i...
BRUCE FEILER The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words,...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE It was long before I could believe that human learning had no clear answer to this question. For a l...
LEO TOLSTOY The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
ADOLF BERLE The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
THOMAS BERGER Well, if I used the privilege of self-incrimination at that time, I must have felt that perhaps ther...
ETHEL ROSENBERG Science defies Religion, Religion defines Politics.
GAGONDEEP SINGH SRAI It?s time to recognize that science and religion should never be pitted against one another.
GILBERT OMENN Stephen goes to school here now and teachers always tell me what a good boy Stephen is. I used to al...
BILL TYLER Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questi...
FRANK MOORE COLBY Hillary Clinton isn't answering important questions in this campaign, such as: Is she running for pr...
BRIAN DONAHUE I'm really disgusted with the fact that I am even answering questions today because I don't see the ...
JASON MAAS Everywhere children are schooled to become masters at answering questions and to remain novices at a...
DILLON The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religiou...
FULTON J. SHEEN Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
RICHARD FEYNMAN There can be no truce between science and religion.
JOHN B. S. HALDANE It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
ISAAC ASIMOV Science is interesting... Albert Eistein has said that he believe in religion, and he has said "Scie...
DEYTH BANGER I'm not answering any questions about Pittsburgh. I have a job here in Oakland.
KEN MACHA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.
CHRISTINA RICCI I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Stephen goes to school here now and teachers always tell me what a good boy Stephen is. I used to al...
BILL TYLER The mystery that remains in the sunset is the riddle of why and how a mixture of seemingly inert, un...
GERALD SCHROEDER I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been aski...
NANA MOUSKOURI Through Neurotheology, I and my fellow scientists of twenty-first century have already taken the fir...
ABHIJIT NASKAR To be, or not to be: what a question!
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STEPHEN HAWKING When asked, 'What did God do before he created the universe?' St. Augustine didn´t reply, 'he was p...
STEPHEN HAWKING It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value
STEPHEN HAWKING If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by every...
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