"When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier."
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"I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them."
"The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world."
"I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document."
"I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul."
"He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world."
"Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets."
"Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world."
"One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world."
"It is within this fathoms-long carcass, with its mind and its notions, that I declare there is the world, the origin of the world, the cessation of the world and the path leading to the cessation of the world."
"The world is continuous flux and is impermanent."
"The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world.""
"The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities."
"It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble."
"Let optimists rule the world."
"I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world."
"Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world."
"The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time."
"There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean."
"Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work."