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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
library presents
presents all the options; we show the library of tea. Bob Richardson
library
I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship. Gordon Woods
library study christ
Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library. Charles Spurgeon
library lasts hours
...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. Arthur Ashe
library too-much fields
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
library temples libraries-and-librarians
The library is the temple of learning. Carl T. Rowan
library firsts found
AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because it reminded him of her. Brandon Sanderson
library important facts
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists. Archibald MacLeish
library may affection
A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. Augustine Birrell