Vera Kistiakowsky quotes

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
-- Vera Kistiakowsky

#Order #Understanding #Atheism

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

I take it, therefore, to be a fact, that one's existence ends with death. I think it possible to show how this fact can be emotionally acceptable.

Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.