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science thinking goal
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole. Carl Sagan
science fiction advantage
I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true. Carl Sagan
science survivor kicking
When a honeybee dies it releases a death pheromone, a characteristic odour that signals the survivors to remove it from the hive. The corpse is promptly pushed and tugged out of the hive. The death pheromone is oleic acid. What happens if a live bee is dabbed with a drop of oleic acid? Then no matter how strapping and vigourous it might be, it is carried kicking and screaming out of the hive. Carl Sagan
science columbus usual
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'. Carl Sagan
science thinking people
I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated. Carl Sagan
science perfect instruments
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. Carl Sagan
science interesting imperfection
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton. Carl Sagan
science way fool
Science is a way to not fool ourselves. Carl Sagan
science technology science-physics
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science Carl Sagan
experience policy reflect
Our policy proposals, when they're analyzed, are responsible, reflect experience and show some real thought. Chris Lehane
experience given history past
Our past and history has given us experience so we know how to respond. Justin Phinisee
experience failure large per rockets shuttle solid
Past experience, on the shuttle and the Titan rockets, suggests that large multi-segment solid rockets have a probability of failure of 0.5 to 1 per cent. Henry Spencer
experience low realized students testing
Particularly with low socio-economic status, my experience is, such students never realized that testing was important, Jim Anderson
experience normal rather wonders
Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film. Joel Edgerton
experience finished game maturity supposed
Our maturity and experience showed. We finished this game like you're supposed to.... We made plays. Ilian Evtimov
experience feels internet people
People have experience with the real world. For most people, the Internet feels insubstantial. Carl Howe
experience knowing leave people
People leave this whole experience really knowing more about their community. Mark French
experience people rushing water
People here were frightened. By experience, they know that if they see the water receding, it's just concentrating, to come rushing back in furiously. Mario Hernandez
scepticism
We must be sceptical even of our scepticism. Bertrand Russell