I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition.... we have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

Timothy Murphy

The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.

Mario Batali

You get moments all the time that kind of make you pinch yourself, some of them make you quite emotional. Winning a BRIT was a big moment because we were just so excited to be at the awards in the first place. Selling out Madison Square Garden was pretty amazing too. Then we woke to the news that our UK tour was sold out. It was crazy.

Harry Styles

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

John Ruskin

Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.

Miguel de Cervantes

Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.

Jack Gibb

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Jerry Seinfeld

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Livy

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp

Terry Pratchett

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

Phyllis Diller

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough

Edward Everett Hale