Nihilo Quotes

#1. There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness.

E. T. Whittaker

#2. Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.

Iris Murdoch

#3. When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

Michael Shermer

#4. I still believe, though. In existing. In ex nihilo nihil fit. If nothing comes from nothing, we cannot return to it. Ergo life has a reason and needs to be.

Lavie Tidhar

#5. A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

Henry F. Schaefer, III

#6. You do not create ex nihilo. You rearrange and recombine. You are the same old flour and eggs in search of a new recipe.

Douglas Wilson

#7. the eight main "dialects" of Chinese are so vastly different that they are, under any analysis, separate languages. The

John McWhorter

#8. It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

Frank Tallis

#9. Contentment is the greatest joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#11. Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Jonah Lehrer

#12. For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Bernard Katz

#13. She loved the way her city always sounded like it was celebrating.

Sarah Pekkanen

#14. People make grave assumptions if they do not know what we are thinking or feeling. I now know love is not the only key ingredient in a good relationship.

Sukree Boodram

#15. You got to understand the god thing. It's not magic. Not exactly. It's about focus. It's about being you, but the you that people believe in. It's about being the concentrated, magnified essence of you.

Neil Gaiman

#16. Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle.

#17. The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

Clayton Christensen

#18. If your incentives are set up wrong - if for some reason you reward people for behavior that's actually bad for your customers or your organization - then you're going to encourage that behavior.

Ramez Naam

#19. I want a campfire box.

Patrick Ness

#20. I was uncertain of our direction, but I knew one thing with perfect clarity: I was in the arms of a man who loved me.

Dannika Dark