Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection--quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.

Arthur Koestler

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.

Arthur Koestler

If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a priori exclude the possibility that we are pulled as well as pushed along its axis? The future has, after all, as much or as little reality as the past, and there is nothing logically inconceivable in introducing, as a working hypothesis, an element of finality, supplementary to the element of causality, into our equations. It betrays a great lack of imagination to believe that the concept of "purpose" must necessarily be associated with some anthropomorphic deity.

Arthur Koestler

Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck? Of course not, Bohr replied, but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not.

Arthur Koestler

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Arthur Koestler

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

Arthur Miller

For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

David Nelson

Leg quarter prices have fallen from a record level of 50 cents a pound last fall to 29 cents a pound today and still seem to be falling. We believe at least some of this is due to consumer concern in the export markets regarding avian influenza.

Greg Biffle

Let them have the attention, ... I believe we've got a great chance to win this thing. It could get real interesting.

Lowe's remains one of our favorite names. Despite concern of a softening housing market in 2006, we believe Lowe's solid results are indicative of trends in the broader home improvement industry.

Lowered guidance is entirely the result of currency. We believe that Baxter shares are very attractively valued following yesterday's (Thursday's) correction.

Losing Valerie for four weeks will hurt; however, I still believe we will be OK. We have talented runners and good leadership on this team. This is still a top-ranked team.

Losing the hair doesn't bother me. Winning State means everything to me and the girls. The hair will grow back. I believe in my girls and they know I believe in them. I'll go through the fire for them and they'll go through the fire for me. That's why I said I'd let them shave my head for what I put them through, and I put them through a lot. They did all that training all summer.

Last year, we came here with some disastrous performance, one of the worst races we had in the year. This year, there is good reason to believe we'll be happy people leaving this place.

Chuck D.

Last year's team was probably the first team I had that really played together as a complete team and believed that they were never out of a game.

Last year we were up here for exhibition games and I was still hoping to be on the team. A year later, it's a totally different situation. I would have never believed it would happen.

Many of the sea otters we moved to San Nicolas Island had a plan of their own. We believe that continuing the translocation program will not promote recovery of the species.

Many of the sea otters we moved to San Nicolas Island had a plan of their own, ... We believe that continuing the translocation program will not promote recovery of the species.

Many of them I simply didn't believe at all. Either they think we're very stupid or think they won't get caught.

Tariq Aziz

Many, many honest women and men in the world do not believe the lies which are being fabricated in Washington and London and this is a very important international development,

Bill Graham

Many legislators believe the government has other motives and that their real intention is to try to reduce the impact of these incidents on the population.

Many Iraqis believe that psychologists treat crazy people. For this reason, they don?t bring their children in for treatment.

Richard Engel

Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.

Many hunters believe that bucks are being over-exploited and would like to see more mature bucks in the woods when they hunt. Most hunters today are interested in quality over quantity.

Many people did not believe this was feasible, and ... we did not think we would make it.

Hal Rothman

Many people believe the strip clubs are the last vestiges of mob influence. Some of them have a mob past, and some of them don't.

Many people believe that only gravity creates wrinkles; however, we have discovered the loss of volume in the face and changes in bone structure also contribute to making us look older.

Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves.

Majora Carter

Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.

Adnan Pachachi

Many people in Iraq, that segment of Iraqi opinion, believes that there should be a determined effort to see whether in fact that elections are feasible,

Many school systems are going to continue having to do more with less when they believed the improving economy was going to lift that burden from them.

Marilyn Nelson

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

Stanley Hauerwas

Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians.