Quotes About Coyne

#1. Who knows CPR?" asks the one who grabbed Hodges. A roadie with a long graying ponytail steps forward. He's wearing a faded Judas Coyne tee-shirt, and his eyes are bright red. "I do, but man, I'm so stoned." "Try

Stephen King

#2. You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young.

Mike Lowry

#3. The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

Jerry A. Coyne

#4. It is time for us to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term "person of faith" as a compliment.

Jerry A. Coyne

#5. I argue that in a world where people must support their opinions with evidence and reason rather than faith, we would experience less conflict over issues like assisted suicide, gay rights, birth control, and sexual morality.

Jerry A. Coyne

#6. If nearly two-thirds of Americans will accept a scientific fact only if it's not in clear conflict with their faith, then their worldview

Jerry A. Coyne

#7. You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

Wayne Coyne

#8. It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

Wayne Coyne

#9. We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

Wayne Coyne

#10. Your life, unfortunately - and I mean this - your life is built on when love dies. There's a lot of love in your life that will simply die. And you wish that you died with it, you know? But you don't. And you go, oh, well, here I am.

Wayne Coyne

#11. Supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that's the way God wants it, end of story. Science, on the other hand, is never satisfied: our studies of the universe will continue until humans go extinct.

Jerry A. Coyne

#12. I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

Wayne Coyne

#13. Change, no matter how small, requires loss. And the prospect of loss is far more powerful than potential gain. It's difficult to imagine what a change will do to us. This is why we need stories so desperately.

Shawn Coyne

#14. We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

Jerry A. Coyne

#15. Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.

Wayne Coyne

#16. Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

Jerry A. Coyne

#17. Stories change people.

Shawn Coyne

#18. I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

Wayne Coyne

#19. Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

George Coyne

#20. Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

George Coyne

#21. I don't know where the sun beams end
and the starlight(start of our lives) begin(s), it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what's right for his own life, it's all a mystery.

Wayne Coyne

#22. The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist. Ironically,

Jerry A. Coyne

#23. Scientists in general tend to have what I would call a bit of hubris that the public do not necessarily understand. So scientists some times make claims that are misunderstood by the public.

George Coyne

#24. To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

Wayne Coyne

#25. Right Question can lead to some great ideas,

Kevin P. Coyne

#26. I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

George Coyne

#27. As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

George Coyne

#28. Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well ... Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child.

Lisa Coyne

#29. My main thesis is narrower and, I think, more defensible: understanding reality, in the sense of being able to use what we know to predict what we don't, is best achieved using the tools of science, and is never achieved using the methods of faith.

Jerry A. Coyne

#30. Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves.

Jerry A. Coyne

#31. Love is the thing that you pursue because it's the thing that gives you all this life, or you believe that, anyway.

Wayne Coyne

#32. Take the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris), a single species that comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, and temperaments. Every single one, purebred or mutt, descends from a single ancestral species - most likely the Eurasian gray wolf - that humans began to select about ten thousand years ago.

Jerry A. Coyne

#33. Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

Jerry A. Coyne

#34. I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

Wayne Coyne

#35. I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Wayne Coyne

#36. Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.

Wayne Coyne

#37. We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.

James K. Coyne, III

#38. I want to be able to shoot laser beams out of my hands at people. That's the kind of stuff that you think all bands should do, but they don't, and I can't understand why most bands don't want to do it.

Wayne Coyne

#39. Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

Jerry A. Coyne

#40. Even though you can't control outcomes for your child, you can parent unconditionally with all your heart.

Lisa Coyne

#41. You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

Jerry A. Coyne

#42. Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone ... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

Wayne Coyne

#43. It's time for students to learn that Life is Triggering. Once they leave college, they'll be constantly exposed to views that challenge or offend them. There are a lot of jerks out there, and no matter what your politics are, a lot of people will have the opposite view.

Jerry A. Coyne

#44. Once again, the only sensible approach is tentatively to reject the dragon hypothesis, to be open to future physical data, and to wonder what the cause might be that so many apparently sane and sober people share the same strange delusion.

Jerry A. Coyne

#45. We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

Wayne Coyne

#46. Investing scarce resources in large-scale public projects and capital goods does increase output, but it does not contribute to economic progress if these investments do not produce things people value.

Christopher J. Coyne

#47. We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

Wayne Coyne

#48. I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'

Wayne Coyne

#49. Anything they have to advertise is something you don't need.

Kelly Coyne

#50. If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

Wayne Coyne

#51. All the great things that I get to be curious about, see, and experience because I'm sensitive to the world, it also opens up these areas where there's a lot of pain and suffering. You're just aware, aware, aware.

Wayne Coyne

#52. If you've ever seen the movie Spinal Tap, I think you know where we should try and reach by the end of our crime Story.

Shawn Coyne

#53. Each species is a masterpiece of evolution that humanity could not possibly duplicate even if we somehow accomplish the creation of new organisms by genetic engineering. - E. O. Wilson

Jerry A. Coyne

#54. if your Story doesn't change your lead character irrevocably from beginning to end, no one will deeply care about it. It may entertain them, but it will have little effect on them. It will be forgotten.

Shawn Coyne

#55. These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

Jerry A. Coyne

#56. Sometimes you just have to say, " ... I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens." You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works

Wayne Coyne

#57. A lot of times I'll doodle on something while I'm doing interviews, because sometimes I'm on the phone for three or four hours and I want to get something going. I'll just start from a scribble, or something that someone else already put on the page.

Wayne Coyne

#58. The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed by scientific investigation - but it's not irrational because it doesn't contradict my reasoning process. It goes beyond it.

George Coyne

#59. I remember when my father was dying, I remember listening to Bjork, and listening to John Coltrane, and these things, and I don't know why but music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up just a little bit.

Wayne Coyne

#60. [W]hen one has a religious experience, what is 'true' is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality. To determine that, one needs a way to verify the contents of a revelation, and that means science.

Jerry A. Coyne

#61. Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

George Coyne

#62. Your life is built on when love dies.

Wayne Coyne

#63. There are many people who do view scientific research as alienating from religion and from God, and when so many people do, there must be some reason for it.

George Coyne

#64. It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.

Wayne Coyne

#65. We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

Wayne Coyne

#66. I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.

George Coyne

#67. Voltaire noted in 1763: The interest I have in believing in something is not a proof that the something exists.

Jerry A. Coyne

#68. Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

George Coyne

#69. The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God's or Jesus's commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.

Jerry A. Coyne

#70. Theology is a subject without an object. Theologians don't study God - they study what other theologians have said. The claims

Jerry A. Coyne

#71. We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we should be proud that we are the only species that has figured how we came to be.

Jerry A. Coyne

#72. Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

Wayne Coyne

#73. I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

Wayne Coyne

#74. I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

George Coyne

#75. I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

Wayne Coyne

#76. Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

Jerry A. Coyne

#77. We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

Wayne Coyne

#78. Selection is both revolutionary and disturbing for the same reason: it explains apparent design in nature by a purely materialistic process that doesn't require creation or guidance by supernatural forces.

Jerry A. Coyne

#79. If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".

Jerry A. Coyne

#80. I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.

Wayne Coyne

#81. It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch ... and then we'd beat them up as well.

Wayne Coyne

#82. If Christianity gave rise to science between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, then you could give religion credit for everything that humans devised in that period.

Jerry A. Coyne

#83. Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

George Coyne

#84. You want to be influenced by the world because it has so many cool things about it, but it also has a bunch of bad things about it.

Wayne Coyne

#85. I think that most of the people I'm dealing with, they're a lot like me. So I'm not pushing people that don't want to do something; most of the people have a billion things going on, and they love it.

Wayne Coyne

#86. I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

George Coyne

#87. Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.

Wayne Coyne

#88. I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

George Coyne

#89. People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

Wayne Coyne

#90. Maybe there's some unquenchable question that I keep asking the universe that I can't get an answer to.

Wayne Coyne

#91. Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.

Jerry A. Coyne

#92. Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

Wayne Coyne

#93. Faith may be a gift in religion, but in science it's poison, for faith is no way to find truth.

Jerry A. Coyne

#94. When I do yoga, it gets all sweaty, and the best thing for dried up hair isn't shampoo, it's sweat.

Wayne Coyne

#95. People like to stop reading when they've finished a chapter, not in the middle of a chapter. This is probably the last thing they'll tell you at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, but it's a reality

Shawn Coyne

#96. Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

Jerry A. Coyne

#97. Even though I don't have any kids of my own, I love this idea of family and taking care of things.

Wayne Coyne

#98. The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

George Coyne

#99. When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

Wayne Coyne

#100. If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.

Jerry A. Coyne