Design Quotes - Page 20

• The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

  Wally Lamb

  May

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• Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Baseball, America, Plot

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• The choices you make today design your future

  Deepak Chopra

  Encouragement, Choices, Today

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• There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Animal, Light

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• Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.

  Frederic Flach

  Life, Years, People

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• Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Ideas, History

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• I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

  John Romero

  Technology, Games, Sound

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• Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

  Abraham de Moivre

  Science, Competition, Luck

  "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".

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• A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits.

  James Hutton

  Moving, Mean, Science

  James Hutton (1795). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations”

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• We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in little time; in nature, we find no deficiency in respect of time, nor any limitation with regard to power. But time is not made to flow in vain; nor does there ever appear the exertion of superfluous power, or the manifestation of design, not calculated in wisdom to effect some general end.

  James Hutton

  Nature, Science, Power

  James Hutton (1788*). “Theory of the earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution and restoration of land upon the globe. (From. the Trans., Roy. soc. of Edinb.).”, p.86

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• If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

  Peter Handke

  Writing, Childhood, Storyteller

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• I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

  Andre Dubus

  Art, Jobs, Writing

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• I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Believe, Intelligent

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• Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

  John Marburger

  Intelligent, Religion, Atheism

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• There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

  David Hillis

  Religious, Intelligent, Religion

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• The significance and joy in my science comes in those occasional moments of discovering something new and saying to myself, 'So that's how God did it.' My goal is to understand a little corner of God's plan.

  Henry F. Schaefer, III

  Goal, Joy, Atheism

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• Nevertheless, just as I believe that the Book of Scripture illumines the pathway to God, so I believe that the Book of Nature, with its astonishing details-the blade of grass, the Conus cedonulli, or the resonance levels of the carbon atom-also suggest a God of purpose and a God of design. And I think my belief makes me no less a scientist.

  Owen Gingerich

  Believe, Book, Thinking

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• It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

  Arthur Leonard Schawlow

  Religious, Science, Atheism

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

  Vera Kistiakowsky

  Science, Order, Understanding

  "Evolution through the Back Door". www.freerepublic.com. June 15, 2003.

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• 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

  Science, Views, Choices

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• Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

  Owen Gingerich

  Our World, Hands, Common Sense

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• I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.

  Allan Sandage

  God, Science, Order

  "Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomer's Quest" by John Noble Wilford, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 1991.

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• Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I'll draw the office that I want to walk into. If it's a piece of crystal, it must feel the way I want it to feel in my hand. If it's women's wear, it must be something I'd like to see my wife dressed in.

  John Rocha

  Fashion, Block, Eye

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• Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

  Jani Allan

  Style, Petitions, Signing

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• In design it is important to shoe the effect of an action. ... Feedback is critical.

  Donald A. Norman

  Shoes, Important, Action

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