Margherita Hack Quotes

#1. Turkey's energy bill due to imports will fall with the increase in use of renewable energy sources. We have no control over the prices of petroleum and natural gas.

Ali Babacan

#2. You can't allow everybody in London to know that the undead exist.

Victoria Smurfit

#3. No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

Joyce Cary

#4. Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.

Orrin Woodward

#5. Do you mean the 'you're wearing my underwear' face?" he asks, moving to the second button and swishing his head back and forth as he does.

Kim Karr

#6. I think our brain is our soul. I don't believe in after-life and much less in a sort of buildings-like heaven, where you meet friends, enemies, relatives.

Margherita Hack

#7. We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven.

Margherita Hack

#8. Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Wally Lamb

#9. It's not God who gave us moral laws, but this doesn't make them less important

Margherita Hack

#10. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#11. Eva's only fault has been the one of wanting to know more, to experiment and search with her own sources the laws of the Universe, of her own body and to refuse the teachings from "above". Eva, basically, represents the curiosity of science against the passive acceptance that belongs to faith.

Margherita Hack

#12. To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements form an entity.

James Schuyler

#13. Us atheist people, we believe we have to act properly and honestly for a moral principle and not because we expect an award in Paradise.

Margherita Hack

#14. For the present he was outside the gates of everything, colleges included: perhaps some day he would be inside. Those palaces of light and leading; he might some day look down on the world through their panes.

Thomas Hardy

#15. Life can end any time, any day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Sometimes it just doesn't seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.

Susan Andersen

#17. The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#18. And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

John Lennon