Peacocke Quotes & Sayings

There are parts of yourself that you hate; parts that you know other people wouldn't understand. — Mindy McGinnis

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. — Arthur Peacocke

The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing. — Arthur Peacocke

Don't threaten me, you piece of filth. — M.J. Carter

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. — Arthur Peacocke

You know you can get in trouble for visiting a boy's personal space. But if you do something for me, I won't tell anyone. Oh, not today. — Ann Aguirre

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of different substances, with particular attributes predicated of each. — Arthur Peacocke

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. — Arthur Peacocke

Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century. — Arthur Peacocke

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone? — Donella Meadows

Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule. — Rick Perlstein

You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans' having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored. The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It gave a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it. The — Joe Haldeman

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. — Arthur Peacocke

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. — Arthur Peacocke

Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist. — Nas

I rather incline towards 'conceptualism', in line with my view of colour perception - I don't think that we can represent objects and properties for which we have no concepts, not even in perceptual experience. In this sense I differ from those who defend 'non-conceptual content' like Michael Tye and Chris Peacocke. — David Papineau

I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know. I learned that I need to be very wary of my storyteller's potential for stirring up drama and trauma. — Jill Bolte Taylor

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work. — Audrey Tautou