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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
maturity people coaching
For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail... Charles R. Swindoll
maturity touch
just the right touch of maturity and vulnerability Sass Jordan
maturity shown single tremendous
He's had a tremendous year. He comes to play every day and he doesn't give up a single at-bat. He's really shown a lot of maturity. Dayton Moore
maturity becoming mark
One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable Charles R. Swindoll
maturity years balance
You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life. Burt Ward
maturity delay pleasure
Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity. Dave Ramsey
maturity delay definitions
One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure. Dave Ramsey
maturity emotion
When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate Dennis Prager
maturity engineering snakes
… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”. Edsger Dijkstra
our-world causes energy
...unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes... Al Gore
our-world imagination challenges
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. Al Gore
our-world light leader
Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle. Bill Hybels
our-world people doe
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene? C. S. Lewis
our-world america racist
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. Eliot Engel
our-world physics mechanic
...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance. Brian Greene
our-world needs lawmakers
Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes. Dennis Hastert
our-world house world
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. Le Corbusier
our-world brain mind
In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain. A. S. Byatt