Doe Quotes - Page 358

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does.

My popularity does not derive from me pandering to people. People came to me. I don't tell anyone to follow me on Twitter. I don't tell people to like my Facebook page. I don't tell people to fill the venue. I'm offered to people, and then people come.

So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way."

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.

'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course.

As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos does not seem terribly radical to me, nor does the notion that we could be receiving help from outside of our dimension.

Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.

For me, there is only one question to ask when I am thinking, saying, or doing anything: "What does this have to do with the agenda of my soul?"

Love breeds tolerance, tolerance breeds peace. ... Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know how.

That we occasionally violate our own stated moral code does not imply that we are insincere in espousing that code.

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?

Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

I've I call [Cardinal John O'Connor] from time to time and he calls me. And when I think there's something he ought to think about doing, I call him and he usually does it.

Over an extended period of time, if a culture does not entail any traditions...if there are no values or if there is no awareness or social consciousness...a heritage tradition can never be developed.

Divide and rule is the way Congress does their politics while we say let's unite and do development.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.