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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
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I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true. Carl Sagan
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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
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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
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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
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Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. Carl Sagan
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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
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Science is a way to not fool ourselves. Carl Sagan
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science Carl Sagan
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reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis. Richard Boucher
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Past initiatives have made it difficult for California taxpayers to settle with the government when only one tax authority offers a settlement plan. This program provides an incentive for many taxpayers who were steered towards flaky shelters to come clean. John Chiang
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Paul Martin's government has lost the moral authority to govern. Gilles Duceppe
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Our local redevelopment authority is going to get together very shortly, and they're going to have to set some goals and objectives about what they want done. Chuck Hall
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Someone at the federal level should have that authority. A. N. Wilson
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Our authority to own and operate a container terminal has been confirmed and now it is time to build it. Andrew Fulghum
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Experience is the highest authority. Carl Rogers
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Experience is, for me, the highest authority. Carl Rogers
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I will do everything in my personal power to see this county does not lose funding, and that our housing authority becomes more stable. I expect to be clear about what we need to do to clean up the matter as far as what HUD wants to see. Robert Barnett