Polkinghorne Books Quotes

#1. I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard.

Donatella Versace

#2. The things that your eyes see plainly and cant forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination.

Kendare Blake

#3. Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.

Orson Scott Card

#4. It doesn't sound like a gun shot. But then if I've been shot in the head, my perception of these things is probably off.

Claire Zorn

#5. You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#6. I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

Dan Simmons

#7. Wine?" said Zoe. "At two in the afternoon?"

"I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years." She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the washbasin. "That's yours.

Mo Hayder

#8. It had to be up at the top of the page, didn't it ... ." Oliver rolls his eyes and wearily looks at the sheer cliff of rock before him. "You do it for Seraphima," I point out.

Jodi Picoult

#9. If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.

Zhuangzi

#10. People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

John Polkinghorne

#11. You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

{Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark}

Albert Einstein

#12. For me
for pretty much every writer
the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity.

Cory Doctorow

#13. I wasn't going anywhere, so how could I be going in the wrong direction?

Leila Sales

#14. Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Erma Bombeck

#15. I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.

Samaire Armstrong