Desagradable Ciencia Quotes & Sayings

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God- the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. — Werner Heisenberg

My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love. — Brenda Russell

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. — Joseph Wambaugh

There are general laws current in the world as to morality. 'Thou shalt not steal,' for instance. That has "necessarily been current as a law through all nations. But the first man you meet in the street will have ideas about theft so different from yours, that, if you knew them as you know your own, you would say that this law and yours were not even founded on the same principle. — Anthony Trollope

There is a thread connecting you no matter how far away you are from someone and you know I have two or three relationships in my life that are like that. — PJ Harvey