![I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-say-it-is-impossible-that-so-sensible-a-people-citizens-of-paris-under-such.jpg)
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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
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Our lights are probably on until 3 in the morning because there is always somebody here doing something. Adam Howard
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Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.
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light robert shining
Robert was a shining light in a day of unrelenting gloom. Grant Wilson
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Physically, having yesterday completely off was huge. We had a light workout today and we're ready to go. Dan Wheeler
lights maybe played realizing
Maybe I'll take a little consolation in realizing that ? even if I'd played lights out too, she was just going to one-up me all the time. Colleen Jones
light order feelings
In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare. Beck
light imagination way
Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay. Becca Fitzpatrick
should-have perfect firsts
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. C. S. Lewis
should-have names space
All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets. Cecelia Ahern
should-have racism prejudice
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business. Bernadette Devlin
should-have ideas leisure
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. Bertrand Russell
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At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out. Al Franken
should-have people too-late
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them. Charles Kettering
should-have mind body
From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage. Blaise Pascal
should-have perfect church
If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us. Charles Spurgeon
should-have guy soldier
I never liked being called the 'most decorated' soldier. There were so many guys who should have gotten medals and never did-- guys who were killed. Audie Murphy