Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

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

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

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

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

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 is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

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 is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

Andrew Flintoff

I'm not keen on making predictions.

Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

Predictions are hard, especially abot the future.

Kevin Kelly

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

Robert Kiyosaki

A prediction is a prediction because it's predictable.

Robert Caro

My predictions are notably inaccurate

Warren Buffett

A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting.

Jackie Mason

Predictions are preposterous.

Agatha Christie

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Stephen King

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

Sammy Hagar

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Otis Redding

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

Robert Fulghum

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.