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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
intellectual losing debate
Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are losing ... Barry Ritholtz
intellectual moral faculty
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. Charles Darwin
intellectual able changing-environment
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Charles Darwin
intellectual mind free-market
A free mind and a free market are corollaries. Ayn Rand
intellectual liberty argument
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. Ayn Rand
intellectual secret listening
When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery. C. S. Lewis
intellectual architecture
Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. Antoine Predock
intellectual pursuit
In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits. Ashwin Sanghi
intellectual left bubbles
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in. Dennis Prager
done want sound
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done B. B. King
done good-times died
You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll. B. B. King
done generations looks
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it. Billy Corgan
done heard been-there-done-that
Been there, done that, seen it, heard it, pissed on it. Billy Corgan
done social-media tweet
If you're on social media as a performer you can tell. If you don't get any Tweets you know it's bombed. I can pretty much gauge how it's doing by comparing the reception to shows I've done that have actual ratings. Bill Burr
done life-is politician
My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done. Bernadette Devlin
done want
When something isn't done, you want to do something about it. Bernadette Peters
done constitutional-convention nations
'Tis done. We have become a nation. Benjamin Rush
done projects feels
I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow. Ashley Tisdale