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

Brian Gibson

patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue.

Jonathan Day

It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are,

Bill Hicks

Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern.

Albert Einstein

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought

Albert Einstein

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Corrie Ten Boom

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

Bill Doran

Weather patterns change; we need to be prepared for that.

Bill Doran

Weather patterns can change. We need to be prepared for that.

Alice Munro

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

Cynthia Ozick

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

Douglas Smith

PR is performance recognition

Donna Tartt

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

Harry Browne

Security ... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

Herbert Spencer

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

Martin Luther

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

Helen Gurley Brown

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

John Ruskin

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

Lisa Kleypas

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.