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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.
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.
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'.
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.
science perfect instruments
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
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.
science way fool
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
science technology science-physics
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science
engineering long people
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus. Edsger Dijkstra
engineering risk brain
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains. Atul Gawande
engineering mind ridicule
Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far. Alfred P. Sloan
engineering engineers irrationality
An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
engineering vision
The engineering is secondary to the vision. Cynthia Ozick
engineering want firsts
The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else. Clifford Stoll
engineering world saving
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world. Vandana Shiva
engineering audio next
When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it. Dave Grohl
engineering years personality
For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years. David Whyte
orderly policy provide water
Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley. Bob Hadfield
order relationship
Our relationship with the union, once the order was put in place, has been pretty good,
order repetition
Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm. M. C. Escher
orderly step
Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way, Shaukat Aziz
orders weakness
Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.
order giving imagination
To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. Barry Lopez
order years style
Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless. B. F. Skinner
order views influential
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them. Bill Crawford
order law wicked
I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone. Big Pun