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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
perfection add
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
perfection simplicity body
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
perfect type expected
Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate. B. J. Novak
perfection needs goes-on
Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working. Azzedine Alaia
perfect littles normal
Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs? Cecelia Ahern
perfect together littles
You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles. Cecelia Ahern
perfect together looks
Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is—whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze—perfect. Bill Bryson
perfection want stuff
Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection. Anton Corbijn
perfect spill wear white woman
I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. and City
instruments
Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. Billie Joe Armstrong
instruments
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. C. S. Lewis
instruments ill mischief
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. Alexander Pope
instruments myth
myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth Anais Nin
instruments performing audience
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative. Bobby McFerrin
instruments observation
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought? Jiddu Krishnamurti
instruments form pure
This is the pure form of servitude: to exist as an instrument. Herbert Marcuse
instruments circumstances mere
Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. F. Scott Fitzgerald
instruments monotonous
The future is a monotonous instrument Francis Picabia