Arno Allan Penzias Quotes

• Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Unique, Support, Atheism

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• If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God's hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Order, Apples, Hands

  "The God I Believe In: What Jews Still Believe a Survey of Contemporary Jewish Spirituality In Conversation with Leading Jewish Philosophers, Writers and Rabbis". Book by Joshua O. Haberman, 1994.

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• What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Lonely, Encouragement, Insecure

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• If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Technology, Want, Computer

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• While change is rarely comfortable, I am happy to say that we not only survived but also grew more capable in the process - seeding much of the information revolution which now pervades the world in which we live.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Comfortable

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. June 2005.

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• I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school

  Arno Allan Penzias

  School, Thinking, Too Much

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• I feel that I learned far more from my students than I could possibly have taught them.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Taught, Students, Feels

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