Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

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

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Carl Sagan

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

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

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 is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

Carl Sagan

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 is a way to not fool ourselves.

Carl Sagan

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science

Shane Price

It is important to us to say to victims and survivors of gunshots and violence that we are trying to do something.

Elizabeth Edwards

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

Courtney Love

I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.

Kurt Vonnegut

Never trust a survivor until you know how they survived.

Francisco Paz

Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident.

Claire Cameron

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

Creed Bratton

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

Aaliyah

I’m a survivor, and I can handle anything. I’m very confident about that.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

Arsene Wenger

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

Ridley Scott

I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere.

Quintin Mikell

He'd been kicking low all day and we were getting pressure off that side,

Tom Bradley

keep it in perspective and tend to their knitting. The same people patting you on the back were kicking you in the butt not too long ago.

Paul Edinger

I think I proved in the preseason, kicking the last two weeks, that I could do it.

Bill Belichick

He's played safety. He's played in (the Dolphins') sub defense. He's played down in a linebacker type of role. He has some flexibility and has played in the kicking game.

Jim Grobe

If we had done what we need to do, we'd be kicking off.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Maybe we needed that kind of tail kicking to wake us up.

Neil Dougherty

When things are going well he's patting someone on the butt. And when they aren't going well, he is kicking them there.