![[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-the-universe-it-may-be-that-primitive-life-is-very-common-and-intelligent-li.jpg)
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stupid parent dyslexia
Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us. Carre Otis
stupid comedian sophisticated
What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes. Carlos Mencia
stupid people world
The problem with the world is there's too many stupid people and nobody to eat them.
stupid culture firsts
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. Carl Bernstein
stupid film made
I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. Agnes Varda
stupid strategy should
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. Charles E. Wilson
stupid dull-life people
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives. Charles de Lint
stupidity would-be fraud
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. Charles Caleb Colton
stupid painful difficult
When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid. Ricky Gervais
science ideas may
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality. Carl Friedrich Gauss
science hands people
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings.
science three newton
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.
science dwarves everyday
We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings. Alan Stern
science ideas perception
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. Alan Turing
science religion boundaries
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
science light candle
Why don't you light that candle ? Alan Shepard
science uniforms taste
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
science disorder cures
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
intelligent fleeting world
One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner. Carlos Castaneda
intelligent laughing grace
Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from. C. S. Lewis
intelligent conversation vistas
We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation. Agnes Repplier
intelligent machines expected
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
intelligent men words-of-wisdom
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things. Charles Dickens
intelligent people sophisticated
Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated. Dianne Wiest
intelligent thinking rivers
Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted. David Denby
intelligent world responsible
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world. David Puttnam
intelligent actors bills
Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met Carole Lombard