![Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.](/assets/img/quote-photos/science-rests-on-reason-and-experiment-and-can-meet-an-opponent-with-calmness.jpg)
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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
opponents way population
I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer. Bertrand Russell
opponents raises
It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping. Joe Solmonese
opponents situation commanders
The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence. Carl von Clausewitz
opponents pressure quite rather steals team
Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.
opponents worked
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on. Justin Trudeau
opponents moments historic
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization. Aberjhani
opponents special subtle
When you do things that are uncharacteristic, we had to play well on special teams, and we didn't do that. When you do things that are not characteristic, even subtle things, you have to give your opponents a lot of credit. Kirk Ferentz
opponents
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them. Andrew Young
opponents plenty shot tough waiting
Unfortunately, we don't get another shot (at Shawnee Heights). But that's okay. We still have plenty of tough opponents waiting for us.
sensitive time
He just has a good, sensitive game. And I think with time he's going to keep getting better and better.
sensitive though
I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily. Xosha Roquemore
sensitive
We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that. Dennis Farina
sensitive shooting
We were really sensitive to him shooting threes. Ben Howland
sensitive ton touch worth
A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn
sensitive sensitivity
Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft Bob Dylan
sensitive young banging
When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. Deborah Kerr
sensitive-person rejection age
Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going. Dianna Agron
sensitive effects
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive. Bette Midler