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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
verbs nouns adjectives
I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days. Carl Sandburg
verbs
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses. Chuck Palahniuk
verbs incompleteness
Consider incompleteness as a verb. Anne Carson
verbs want surrender
I want to rethink 'surrender' as an active verb. Brian Eno
verbs tire
Verbs. All of them tiring. Charles Frazier
verbs fundamentals want
We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be. Evelyn Underhill
verbs seasons
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons. Gretel Ehrlich
verbs
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be. Franz Liszt
verbs nouns
God is a verb, not a noun. R. Buckminster Fuller
physics takes terrible time
Physics is a terrible, terrible, terrible thing. It takes all of your energy, all of your time and all of your attention. Walter Wada
physics quantum theory
If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. Albert Einstein
physics metaphysics
The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics. Albert Einstein
physics tomorrow
Tomorrow is going to be a big physics day. Michael White
physics theory
A lot of my theories were not applicable as a closer Curt Schilling
physics wells
Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics. Amy Carter
physics physicist hard
Physics is much too hard for physicists. David Hilbert
physics unfolding witness
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding. Daniel H. Wilson
physics strings theory
String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century. Edward Witten