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stars laughter flower
At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars flower love-is
What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars businessman knows
How is it possible for one to own the stars?" "To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly. "I don't know. To nobody. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars men light
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars lying eye
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars ocean men
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars sky water
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars flower pride
I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom! Antoine de Saint-Exupery
stars night bells
And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells ... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
earth falling relationship
Our relationship is real. It's no fake. He's down to earth, and I'm down to earth. We'd never have a falling out over money. Greg Oden
earth finance money work year
Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that? Rob James-Collier
earth
Somehow, I've got to come back to earth here. Kenny Perry
earth lightly rest thee
Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee Marcus Aurelius
earthquake frequently magnitude predict
Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended, Richard Allen
earth bows narnia
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content. C. S. Lewis
earth monkeys apes
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth. Carl Sagan
earth ruins ifs
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go Carl Sagan
earthquake national recent worst
It is a national tragedy. This is the worst earthquake in recent times. Shaukat Sultan