Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Robinson

School systems should base their curriculum not on the idea of separate subjects, but on the much more fertile idea of disciplines... which makes possible a fluid and dynamic curriculum that is interdisciplinary.

Ernst Mach

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Richard K. Morgan

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Brit Marling

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

Raymond E. Feist

Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations.

Alan Turing

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Lord Kelvin

Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.

Polykarp Kusch

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

Ivar Giaever

Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory.

Leonard Susskind

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Michael P. Anderson

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Max Planck

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Jean Piaget

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Wilhelm Reich

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

Simon Fuller

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

Toby Stephens

Screen is satisfying because it's so technical and mysterious. It's like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it's either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor - and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free.

Anish Kapoor

Sculpture occupies the same space as your body.

Alfred Nobel

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Jeremy Bentham

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

Cardinal Richelieu

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Brianna Brown

Secretly, I'm in awe of Broadway performers. I would love to perform at that level. I love the exchange with the audience. I love being able to sing and dance to express your emotions and the community and friendships that are formed when working on a theater piece.

Sara Shepard

Secrets are very intriguing - I always think thats an interesting theme.

Moses

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Warren G

Seeing Dre looking all cut up and in shape made me want to get myself together and look right, too.

Lilly Pulitzer

Seeing Michelle Obama's bright color choices, and how she made people smile and reinforced Obama's platforms of hope and change, was inspiring.

Sean Covey

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way they do. We too often judge people without having all the facts.

Vinod Khosla

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

Thomas More

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

Amity Shlaes

Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.

Kim Coates

See, what I don't like listening to is when writers go, 'And then the person cries.' 'Or the person does this.' It's there, but it's not the Bible. I wait and see what happens to me on the day.

Debbie Ford

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

Douglas Fairbanks

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

Octavio Paz

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.

Rob Sheffield

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

David Chalmers

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Lexa Doig

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

Nick Hornby

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

Karl Kraus

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Christina Hendricks

Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris - the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.

Sue Johanson

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

Ricky Martin

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

William Ernest Henley

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

Chris Adrian

Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer - but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it's all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration.

Althea Gibson

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

Christie Brinkley

Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.

Sara Paxton

Sharks are really serious animals. They've been around longer than dinosaurs. They're basically prehistoric killing machines, and that's terrifying and fascinating, at the same time.

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.