Kitty Ferguson quotes

“We don't know how large a proportion of the significant evidence about the universe is excluded by science. Perhaps hardly any. Perhaps so great a proportion that any body of knowledge which excludes it is hardly more than a caricature. Perhaps something in between - so that science finds truth but not the whole truth.”
-- Kitty Ferguson

Source : Kitty Ferguson (1994). “The Fire in the Equations”

#Body Quotes #Significant Quotes #Proportion Quotes

“It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.”
-- Kitty Ferguson

Source : Kitty Ferguson (1997). “The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God”, Eerdmans Publishing Company

#Attitude Quotes #Virtue Quotes #Consideration Quotes

“So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.”
-- Kitty Ferguson

Source : "Stephen Hawking at 70: Fellow scientists pay tribute" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

#Self Quotes #People Quotes #Ongoing Quotes

“I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.”

“I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.”

Source : "There Are Worse Things I Could Do". Book by Adrienne Barbeau, 2006.

“One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.”

“Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.”

Source : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2006.

“My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.”

“We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.”

“I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson,”

“In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.”

“Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do.”

“The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.”

Source : Claude Adrien Helvétius (1807). “De l'esprit; or, Essays on the mind. Transl. To Which are now prefixed, a life of the author and prefatory strictures by W. Mudford”, p.24