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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
ideas people together
I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar. Bebe Neuwirth
ideas way locked-up
Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me. Becca Fitzpatrick
ideas democracy left
We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones Barry McCaffrey
ideas self endurance
For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters. B. H. Liddell Hart
ideas outside plans
We need plans and ideas from outside this committee. Larry Martin
ideas people attention
People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something. Billy Corgan
ideas giving world
My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in. Bill Shankly
ideas people wish
When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate. Bill Crawford
ideas easy individual
It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas. Bhagat Singh
essence interesting may
It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushed Bill Sienkiewicz
essence play childhood
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. Bill Cosby
essence play childhood
The essence of childhood, of course, is play. Bill Cosby
essence views natural
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends... C. S. Lewis
essence culture taught
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority. Carl Rogers
essence witch procedures
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. Bergen Evans
essence speech opinion
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos. Bill Vaughan
essence discipline albums
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention. Bill Bruford
essence judge talking
Judge Roberts, I'm not talking about an issue. I'm talking about the essence of jurisprudence. Arlen Specter