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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
funeral life-is shoulders
Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral. Bhagat Singh
funeral together get-together
We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often". Bernard Berenson
funerals interested mourning people
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. Thomas Lynch
funerals wishes
He wishes there were more coffins, more funerals and much more pain. David Raskin
funeral pay
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral Yiddish Proverb
funeral harbor miss needs nobody priesthood spectacle state
The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing. Eugene Kennedy
funeral sure
We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero. Marilyn Miller
funeral last-words contests
I foresee a great funeral contest over me. Alexander the Great
funeral trying four
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was. Dwight L. Moody
mathematics until
I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959. John Forbes Nash, Jr.
mathematics
I was a mathematics major and really into math. Mary Callahan Erdoes
mathematics program trouble tutor
If any of them that come through the program are having trouble in math, I'll tutor them. (Teaching) is the most important thing I do. William Booth
mathematics work
I've always been interested in using mathematics to make the world work better. Alvin E. Roth
mathematics preferred
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising. Clive Granger
mathematics time
Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for one who hasn't learned to add or multiply, at least the first time. Richard Bach
mathematics teams
With 43 teams here, you do the math. Todd Berrier
mathematics national scale terms textbook
In terms of mathematics textbooks, why can't you have the scale of a national market? Right now, we have a Texas textbook that's different from a California textbook that's different from a Massachusetts textbook. That's very expensive. Bill Gates
mathematics mathematician interest
My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician. David Chalmers