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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
flames light darkness
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.
flames moment paralyzed state suddenly though
I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
flames looked mirror saw
I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw flames from the back of my truck,
flames volcanoes exhausted
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. Benjamin Disraeli
flames god pull smash window
My god, I wanted to go in there and smash that window and try and see if I could pull her out. But the flames were too high. It's gone. Robert Lopez
flames order light
Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
flames cities house
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames. Archibald MacLeish
flames dumb perky
In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb. Debra Winger
flames america secret
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. Alexis de Tocqueville
poison success successful
It can poison you if you have success and you're not a successful person Angelina Jolie
poison delight causes
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there. Eliphas Levi
poison looks anwr
I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill. Ben Nelson
poisoned scientific vague
Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.
poison body belief
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him. A. E. Housman
poison wealth
Without God's Name, there is no other wealth. Everything else is just poison and ashes.
poison havens
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. D. H. Lawrence
poison persons angry-person
An angry person is always full of poison. Confucius
poison raisins tarts
The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ... Christopher Paolini