#capable

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God. ↗

— Lactantius

#compels #god #gods #greatest #highest

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ask #been #capable #computations #digital

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#capable #certainly #chip #comes #consider

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#born #bred #breeding #capable #different

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#born #i #i was born #incapable #instance

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achieving #capable #conceiving #him #his

Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#black holes #capable #cosmology #evolutionary #formulates

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges. ↗

— Barack Obama

#big things #biggest #biggest challenges #capable #challenges

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#i #incapable #lying #spy #terrible