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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
building-up wave matchsticks
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves. Alain de Botton
building-up shoes house
Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house. Elizabeth David
building-up facts christianity
Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition. Adolf Hitler
building-up yield people
Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people. Clayton Christensen
building-up challenges acting
Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous. Clint Eastwood
building-up needs world
Anyone wanting to proclaim the glory of Christ to the ends of the earth must consider not only how to declare the gospel verbally but also how to demonstrate the gospel visibly in a world where so many are urgently hungry. If I am going to address urgent spriitual need by sharing the gospel of Christ or building up the body of Christ around the world, then I cannot overlook dire physical need in the process. David Platt
building-up vanity different
The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest. Andrew Lincoln
building-up boxing buzz
There's such a big buzz around boxing at the moment. Everything's happening and there's so much building up with a lot of young talent coming through. Billy Joe Saunders
building-up eggs people
I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees. Audrey Hepburn
statistics three problem
Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity. Bertrand Russell
statistics underrated
He was one of the most underrated sires in Australia. His statistics tell the story. David Hayes
statistics buffalo united-states
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. Art Buchwald
statistics method holmes
You know my methods. Apply them. Arthur Conan Doyle
statistics assuming unlimited
If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited. Aristotle
statistics events should
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.' Aristotle
statistics mathematical primaries
To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. Aristotle
statistics guarantees virtue
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue. Aldous Huxley
statistics i-can ifs
If I can't picture it, I can't understand it. Albert Einstein