Melanie Phillips Quotes

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

We want the world and we want it...

That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

We have turned away from the natural world. Instead, it's all about money and power.

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

People have had to make up for their spiritual impoverishment by accumulating material things. When spiritual blessings come, material blessings seem unimportant. As long as we desire material things this is all we receive, and we remain spiritually impoverished.

The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.

We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.

A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict with science and history. For Christians, a test of this is the Empty Tomb. I ask Christians: 'are you saying that it does not matter - as a matter of fact - whether or not Christ's tomb was empty and that he was resurrected?' At that point, I find that, to a lot of them, it really does matter, despite all the fine talk about not wanting to confuse science and history with religion.