Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

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

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

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

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

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 is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

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 is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Jim Haslett

Part of me says maybe it's time for a change.

Guy Kawasaki

Statistically it's probably one out of a hundred, so that means there's ten out there. Maybe twenty.

Reggie Bush

Overall, I think I proved I should be the No. 1 pick. I thought I maybe could have pushed a 4.29 out of there, but overall I'm pretty happy.

Matthew Gervais

(Research) is so meaningful and rewarding at this point I'm willing to withhold assumptions on where I'll end up. Maybe I'll find God. Maybe I'll find out science isn't for me. Maybe I'll go sit on a mountain and meditate. The ride will be worth it.

Marilyn Oliveira

Planning the nursery comes soon enough, maybe at the same time. Don't do both.

Nancy Wilson

Maybe our team was a little star struck. But the turnovers had more to do with the size differential and the quickness differential.

Charlie Whitehurst

Maybe on third down, that's where we need to be looking. He always delivers.

Frank Beamer

Maybe one practice day wasn't quite what we wanted,

Sheryl Garrett

Maybe it's a reaction to going overboard in the 1980s and 1990s, but I sense a lot of people are moving away from materialistic things (and) toward more thoughtful and meaningful holidays.

Robert Morgan

Part of the pleasure of being a writer is that you get to go to unexpected places. If a place sounds interesting, I like to go.

C. S. Lewis

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

C. S. Lewis

Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.

Andre Agassi

I tell you what I do take pleasure in is accomplishing things that I question myself,

Ken Stevenson

I'm so used to having them there. It's a pleasure.

Jan Eliasson

I have a masochistic pleasure to put in 14-hour days.

Ronde Barber

He turned it on. It was a pleasure watching him.

Horace

He has won every vote who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

Elizabeth Bowen

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.