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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.
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.
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'.
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.
science perfect instruments
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
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.
science way fool
Science is a way to not fool ourselves.
science technology science-physics
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science
errors hitting reason
Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose. Joe Archuleta
errors overcome routine talented
Some of these errors were just the routine kind of plays. And then we get run-ruled because of it. We're not talented enough to overcome those mistakes.
errors tendencies dangerous
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error. B. H. Liddell Hart
errors doe dignity
[Something] does not rise to the dignity of error. C. S. Lewis
errors temptation needs
After an error you need not only to remove the causes but also to correct the error itself: after a sin you must not only, if possible, remove the temptation, you must also go back and repent the sin itself. In each case an 'undoing' is required.
errors elude-us generations
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .
errors trial-and-error trials
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
errors views rigidity
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
errors giving challenges
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
catholic church partner percent serve
Over 70 percent of those that we serve are Catholic. We really need to partner with the Catholic Church more than we do. Jack Greene
catholic roman-catholic baptized
I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized. Billy Corgan
catholic church way
Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. Bill Condon
catholic rosary beads
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ... Bernadette Devlin
catholic kids propensity school six time
I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. Meghan Markle
catholic-religion people doubt
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant. Bill Vaughan
catholic church desire
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse. Bertrand Russell
catholic family kids wholesome
My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family. Marco Rubio
catholics mate people pigeons
I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics Woody Allen