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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
fossils life richer stories willing
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to. Robert T. Bakker
fossils records changed
Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed. Charles Darwin
fossils
They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked. Dan Gebo
fossils mystery study
Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations. Pierre Loti
fossils modern enough
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans Chris Stringer
fossils lifetime predicted seriously
These fossils are things we predicted would be there but seriously in my lifetime I never thought we were going to find them.
fossils different himalayas
There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things. Rebecca Solnit
fossils
We are fossils in the making. Wallace Stegner
fossils lively
He's just rather more lively than most fossils. Tamora Pierce
earth falling relationship
Our relationship is real. It's no fake. He's down to earth, and I'm down to earth. We'd never have a falling out over money. Greg Oden
earth finance money work year
Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that? Rob James-Collier
earth
Somehow, I've got to come back to earth here. Kenny Perry
earth lightly rest thee
Rest lightly on her earth, for she trod never heavily on thee Marcus Aurelius
earthquake frequently magnitude predict
Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended, Richard Allen
earth bows narnia
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content. C. S. Lewis
earth monkeys apes
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
earth ruins ifs
If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go
earthquake national recent worst
It is a national tragedy. This is the worst earthquake in recent times.