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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
differences done records
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference. Beck
differences world half-life
A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world. C. S. Lewis
differences infinite away-from-you
The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite. C. S. Lewis
differences competition world
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money. Benjamin Rush
differences making-a-difference world
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way. Bill Bryson
differences attention details
The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. Charles R. Swindoll
differences fundamentals faculty
There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties Charles Darwin
differences chance origin-of-species
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. Charles Darwin
differences support economy
There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations. Charles Bass
well-known lullaby wells
I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics. Alanis Morissette
well-known let-me
I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong." Clint Eastwood
well-known wells known
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. Frank Herbert
well-known worthy wells
In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks. Martin Heidegger
well-known wells menstruation
Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known. G. Stanley Hall
well-known evidence bias
Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias. Paul Krugman
well-known manners persian
Persian social manners are well known, and there is no other society that can compete with them. Moshe Katsav
well-known wells animator
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known. Terry Gilliam
well-known equal wells
Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger) Walt Kelly