Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

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

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

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

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

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 is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

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 is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Willie Geist

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Chere Avery

Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom.

Beck

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

Bill Sienkiewicz

But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it

C. S. Lewis

In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

C. S. Lewis

If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.

C. S. Lewis

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

Cecelia Ahern

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

Bill Vaughan

The fact is that I loved being in England.

Monk Frost

Our opinion varies as the tide of see.

Bertrand Russell

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Rick Gibson

That was the game, those two (baskets) in my opinion were the game.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

David Wilder

He effectively rejected the opinion of the Supreme Court.

Kerry Sutton

We've been told there is a video of the identification process, and in my opinion we should have it by now.

Charles Darwin

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.