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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
leaves-of-grass persons
Are you the new person drawn toward me? Walt Whitman
leaves-of-grass democratic nations
Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
leaves-of-grass shows smallest
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
leaves-of-grass world sound
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
leaves-of-grass objects
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
leaves-of-grass individual theory
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
leaves-of-grass tamed bits
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.
leaves-of-grass lucky born
Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
leaves-of-grass grass walt
It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards. Thomas Wentworth Higginson
amazement category punch relief
I think there's a sense of relief and a sense of amazement because this was a Category 1 hurricane. It's still a big punch that we took. Kristin Jacobs
amazement complex local model watched
I've watched with amazement as Local Motors has pioneered a co-creation and micro-manufacturing model that has democratized the development and production of complex machines, effectively transforming consumer choice from supply-driven to demand-driven. Bre Pettis
amazement force hand name novel spite watch wrote
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak. Orhan Pamuk
amazement decent ended fact man married source thanks women
The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to 'The Women's Room.' Catherine Jinks
amazement stand
I just stand back in amazement that we're the only one of the 10 (ranked teams) going down there.
amazement dallas loving people places watching
It was extraordinary. I mean, for us it was just an amazement that people were watching it in Dallas of all places and were loving it. Eric Idle
amazement beyond desire emotional far finish goes helping hours room sit stuff weight
I'd sit back in amazement of, one, him not having a leg, and two, the stuff he was doing without a leg, ... I'd never let him see me get emotional about it. Inspiration is not the word. It goes so far beyond that. I would see him put hours in the weight room and I would be there helping him. To see that desire in his face, in his eyes, he wanted to finish on his terms.
amazement corners
Amazement awaits us at every corner. James Broughton