![[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.](/assets/img/quote-photos/attributing-the-origin-of-life-to-spontaneous-generation-however-improbable-we.jpg)
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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
origin-of-life two giving
At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more. Carl Zimmer
origin-of-life goal creative
I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. Albert Einstein
origin-of-life generations firsts
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. Arthur Peacocke
origin-of-life mind evolution
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved. Francis Crick
origin-of-life might boeing
The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein. Fred Hoyle
origin-of-life support earth
In short there is not a shred of objective evidence to support the hypothesis that life began in an organic soup here on the Earth.
origin-of-life lessons-to-be-learned understanding
The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life. Paul McEuen
origin-of-life growth important
The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side. However improbable we regard this event, or any of the steps which it involves, given enough time it will almost certainly happen at least once. And for life as we know it, with its capacity for growth and reproduction, once may be enough. George Wald
origin-of-life support stories
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. Paul Davies
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Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley. Bob Hadfield
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Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm. M. C. Escher
orderly step
Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way, Shaukat Aziz
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Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.
order giving imagination
To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. Barry Lopez
order years style
Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless. B. F. Skinner
order views influential
In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them. Bill Crawford
order law wicked
I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone. Big Pun