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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
defining expected meeting reasonably
Our meeting has been useful, not in narrowing the differences but in defining them, ... I feel we have done everything we could reasonably be expected to do in agriculture. Peter Mandelson
defining ended life moment
'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me. Adam Scott
defining man mother trip
That was the defining thing to me about the whole trip - man did that, not Mother Nature. Chris White
defining growing human impact moment profound within
It had a profound impact on me as a human being, and I did a lot of growing within that, so that will always be a defining moment in my life, a defining time. Elijah Wood
defining final journey
I think it does in a lot of people's eyes. To me, it is a lot more about the journey than the final destination.... But in a lot of people's eyes, it is the defining part of a career. Bill Cowher
defining images period
For me, this is one of the defining images from that period of history. David Hopkins
defining dominant element gasoline prices short
For the short run, gasoline prices are going to be the dominant element in defining the economy.
defining describing grew majority people
I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.' Lupita Nyong'o
defining determine middle rules surprises test trying
We're in the middle of the integration test cycle. There haven't been any surprises installing the system. Just defining rules and policies, trying to determine how everything should work.
terms
Oracle, in terms of earnings, is influencing the market.
term
There's no such thing as The Method. The term 'method-acting' is so much nonsense. There are many methods, many techniques. Susan Strasberg
terms view
I don't view it in the terms of a comeback, Jay Farrar
terms
I don't think of this in terms of winning,
term
I always think long term about anything. That's why I have never sold anything that I've ever purchased. And I never purchase anything that I don't think I'm going to keep for a lifetime. Donald Sterling
term my-own only-time
The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine. Billy Bob Thornton
term ill ifs
If I lose, I lose. Ill do it on my terms. Ed Rendell
terms
There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of. Robert Kazinsky
terminal
Bach is thus a terminal point. Nothing comes from him; everything merely leads to him. Albert Schweitzer