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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
missing want reason
It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop. Becca Fitzpatrick
missing knows
You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life. B. B. King
missing roger soccer-fans
Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them. Bill Shankly
missing mind bouquets
Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs ... Cecil Beaton
missing feelings searching-for-love
are you saying that the feeling of searching for a missing sock is like searching for love ? Cecelia Ahern
missing twists joy-luck-club
what you don't know, you don't miss
missing trying world
It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do? Arsene Wenger
missing mostly satisfied state win
I want to win state. I'm mostly satisfied with what I've done individually, but all I'm missing is a state title. Kami Hebert
missing punch sure trying
I was just trying to make sure the goalie didn't punch me in the head. I wanted to make up for missing in the first half. Taylor Twellman
ontology logic certainty
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. Alfred North Whitehead
ontology logic mathematics
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. Charles Sanders Peirce
ontology logic study
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations. Felix Klein
ontology logic mysterious
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it. Eugene Wigner
ontology tests logic
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. Leonardo da Vinci
ontology faithfulness epistemology
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. John Polkinghorne
ontology limits logic
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand. Rene Descartes
ontology infinity logic
Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish. Marcus Aurelius