Top 11 Owen Gingerich Quotes

#1. It's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land.

Owen Gingerich

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#2. The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

Owen Gingerich

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#3. Sometimes I moonlight for a guy named Ranger who's extremely bad in an incredibly good way.

Janet Evanovich

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#4. An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.

Mel Brooks

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#5. WHO MAKES THESE CHANGES? Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. DROWNING

Jalaluddin Rumi

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#6. Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

Jack Kornfield

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#7. Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

Henry David Thoreau

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#8. Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

Owen Gingerich

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#9. Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

Owen Gingerich

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#10. Stuart Clark's The Sun Kings is undoubtedly the most gripping and brilliant popular-science history account that I have ever read. It is informative, accurate, and relevant. Clark's ability to write so vividly makes me seethe with jealousy.

Owen Gingerich

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#11. Every corner of the sky awkwardly showed up wearing the exact same thing, a moody gray dress accessorized with flat clouds. If North, South, East, and West were drag queens, this would be bad, very bad.

Edmond Manning

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