What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible; it's not the end of the world.
People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a way of being in the world that painting brings to us, that painters bring to the task that we absorb and are able to be in dialogue with. That's something that's part of us.
Fantastic, I am very happy to be the fastest 800 metres runner in the world.
We've had a century in which we've allowed some industries to basically pollute the air, pollute the water, pollute the ground, pollute the rivers, and we've been trying sporadically to clean air acts and ways of regulating them. But we now are sitting in a world that's filled with all sorts of materials that we don't really know the impact of. It's not like they're necessarily all poisonous but it's odd to put all these materials into our environment and watch.
The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.
Modern science is a vast attempt to homogenize the universe. Aristotelian science, by contrast, remains faithful to our lived experience, and thus conceives of the world as essentially heterogeneous; composed of different kinds of beings.
Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.
I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely alarmed by Trump's election. That very much includes Angela Merkel.
Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.
Vladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.
Have fun saving the world, or you are just going to depress yourself.
If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.
For an industry that's built on science, the technology world sure has its share of myths.
We don't have stomachs for the things of this world because we have feasted on the goodness of our God.
Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world.
Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.
I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.
Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.
The world is hungry to hear the truth. ... We have it. Are we equal to the task-to the responsibility God has placed upon us?
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
Free agency is a gift of God....The world does not comprehend the significance of that divine gift to the individual. It is as inherent as intelligence which, we are told, has never been nor can be created
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
One of the fundamental issues with The Vatican is that the world changed on us. That show was conceived and written while Pope Benedict was still in charge of the Vatican, and it was conceived in a world that now would feel very dated.
When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.
Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares.
