Edward Robert Harrison quotes

“Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.”
-- Edward Robert Harrison

Source : Smithsonian Magazine, December 1995.

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“'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms.”
-- Edward Robert Harrison

Source : Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

#Reality Quotes #Color Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. Take your choice: blind chance that requires multitudes of universes or design that requires only one.... Many scientists, when they admit their views, incline toward the teleological or design argument.”
-- Edward Robert Harrison

Source : Edward Robert Harrison (1986). “Masks of the universe”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

#Views Quotes #Choices Quotes #Design Quotes

“Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.”
-- Edward Robert Harrison

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.”
-- Edward Robert Harrison

#Stars Quotes #Years Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?”
-- Edward Robert Harrison

Source : Edward Robert Harrison (1987). “Darkness at night: a riddle of the universe”, Harvard Univ Pr

#Light Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!”

“Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.”

“Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn't even involve plants.”

“Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.”

“One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.”

Source : "We're All Gleeks - 10 Questions for Glee Co-Creator Brad Falchuk". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 7, 2009.

“There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.”