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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
tests translate understood
Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning. C. S. Lewis
tests facts deceiving
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. Antoine Lavoisier
tests creatures living-creatures
The true test of anyone's worth as a living creature is how much he can utilize what he has. Anton LaVey
tests elegance individual
Elegance is innate...individual...eternal...it stands the test of time! Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
tests whatever yesterday
Now that the tests have been done, we know what it's not. Whatever it was, it was significantly more debilitating yesterday morning. Colleen Dolan
tests chemistry sometimes
Sometimes you fail your chemistry test and other times it's explosive. Bruce Campbell
tests roles want
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it. Brit Marling
tests borders three
The Pentagon tested an anti-missile system in New Mexico Wednesday. The test was an incomplete success. While the interceptor was shooting down the incoming missile, three thousand illegal aliens walked right across the border under its nose. Argus Hamilton
tests satisfaction tested
I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test. Ashton Eaton
century document half historic judicial observe patriotic prayer protects religious stunning thanksgiving
Patriotic Americans should observe a day of prayer and thanksgiving for this stunning and historic reversal of half a century of misinformation and judicial distortion of the document that protects our religious freedoms.
century existence lenses surely taught twentieth visible
Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality. Michael Arlen
century church corner county evidence faint far found green hill house kick looks near remains rings snow spring thinking though true
Spring Hill Church near Hebron has a kick. St. Martin's Church in Worcester County has a kick and cove, as does All Hallows in Snow Hill. Pemberton Hall, an 18th century house not far from Green Hill, also has the two features. That got us thinking Green Hill may have had a kick and cove, too. We found evidence -- though very faint -- of a corner cove molding and it really rings true when it was put back -- it looks right. The evidence remains on the timbers from where the kick was removed.
century goal past preserve using
Our goal is to preserve the past using 21st century technology. James Watson
century design modern past
It is a very modern car, a 21st century design that respectfully nods to the past but focuses indisputably on the future.
century four perhaps
I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered. Edward Albee
century coming control decades game great leading marked natural ongoing played powers resource scramble setting struggle
Just at it did when the Great Game was played out in the decades leading up to the First World War, ongoing industrialization is setting off a scramble for natural resources. The coming century could be marked by recurrent resource wars, as the great powers struggle for control of the world's hydrocarbons. John Gray
century require
The 21st century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organizations. Chuck Hagel
century complex habits looked thinking until
The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which until now looked settled, are being challenged. Hayao Miyazaki