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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
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I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
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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.
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science
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Rebuilding stronger and safer and more flood-resistant is a wise investment of tax dollars. There recently has been an independent study by the Mitigation Hazard Council that has indicated that each dollar spent on disaster mitigation saves society on the average of $4. David Maurstad
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Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain Mark Twain
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Parlay cards had a good handle and average win, while props did very well. It just took a while to grade them.
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Paul had an average fastball and average curve. He was going to pitch in the major leagues, but there was nothing that would particularly distinguish him from lots of other guys. Mark Shapiro
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Part of my training was learning how to refer patients to cardiologists for heart problems, gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications.
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Our offense has been very average and by rotating quarterbacks, we couldn't ever get into synch. Mike Gundy
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Our offensive linemen have decent size. The 2000 state championship team averaged 260 pounds up front. We're pretty close to that average (257 pounds) this year.
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Our offensive average went up after losing our career leading scorer, and our steals went up by 64 this year. We accomplished a lot out of the change in style.
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Our middle of the lineup and our average with runners in scoring position just haven't been that good. We haven't given our pitching staff any margin for error yet, and that's been a little frustrating.
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Recent economic data has been on the soft side. There is nothing in the recent run of generally soft numbers that would support another rise in rates by the Reserve Bank.
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Recent data in Japan suggest that the risk is Japan will end its quantitative easing sooner. That is lending some support to the yen.
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Relative to what was the first estimate of GDP, this data was a little worse and that's going to make the third-quarter GDP a little worse, to around negative 1.2 percent.
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Organizations want to scan a wide variety of documents at high-speeds, but also ensure data integrity. The AS3690 can scan just about any type of document in the mailroom, eliminating extra hands and steps in the process. Not only does this improve efficiency and reduce costs, it's also more secure.
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People just extrapolate off the last data point.
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Some of the recent data we have been getting is decidedly more upbeat. The market looks at this as interesting history, likely to be revised up in future months.
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Some of the Kmart issue was worked in during the previous session. The data out of the U.S. still points to an economic recovery.
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Some of the top aquariums in the United States, none have had two months of over 300,000 attendants. When we see this kind of data we're getting, we're not even in peak season yet, it tells us we're more than an aquarium.
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Someone once said that recovering data without the application is like reading without glasses -- you've got the book, you've got the words, but you don't know what it means.