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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
wished
Stay hungry. Stay foolish. I've always wished that for myself. John Morgridge
wish facts accepting
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes. B. F. Skinner
wish want looks
I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that. Big Sean
wish want firsts
The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered. Cecelia Ahern
wish mars reason
Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you. Carl Sagan
wish prejudice cosmos
Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries. Carl Sagan
wish sitting lasts
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up. Bette Davis
wish helping enjoy
I do enjoy them. I get to meet the next generation of comics and help them out. Big comics doing small shows was something that used to happen a lot more back in the day. I wish there was more of that. Bill Burr
wish would-be leisure
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. Bertrand Russell
loyal
Particularly as an assistant, when things are going bad, there's no more loyal person in the game. Graham Murray
loyal means player scene states united united-states
Removing the United States from the scene means eliminating the player most loyal to the idea of a stable, heterogeneous Iraq. Stephen Biddle
loyal manners nature noble
Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind. Lord Alfred Tennyson
loyalty may citizens
To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath. B. F. Skinner
loyal bigs members
Well the Kop’s exclusive. The Spion Kop at Liverpool is an institution. And if you are a member of the Kop you feel as if you are a member of a big society where you’ve got thousands of friends all roundabout you. And they’re united and loyal. Bill Shankly
loyalty sacrifice animal
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is? C. S. Lewis
loyalty spring cosmos
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. Carl Sagan
loyalty earth cosmos
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Carl Sagan
loyalty organization preparation
No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide. Bertrand Russell