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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. Carl Sagan
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. Carl Sagan
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'. Carl Sagan
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. Carl Sagan
science perfect instruments
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have. Carl Sagan
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. Carl Sagan
science way fool
Science is a way to not fool ourselves. Carl Sagan
science technology science-physics
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science Carl Sagan
discovery driven speed survival travel
Our speed of travel is driven as much by survival as by discovery. Steve Squyres
discovery general impressed innovation love science scientific seem understanding
I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their understanding of scientific principles. There is a general love of science and discovery here. Kurt Adams
discovery awakening events
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
discovery may ratios
In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters. Carl Sagan
discovery innovation age
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. Carl Sagan
discovery people important
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person. Bill Bryson
discovery people paper
Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
discovery achievement age
The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast. Bertrand Russell
discovery found remains tends
I think, just by the discovery and where the remains were found tends to, I think ... exonerate Gary, Mark Geragos
orderly policy provide water
Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley. Bob Hadfield
order relationship
Our relationship with the union, once the order was put in place, has been pretty good, Elliot Krieger
order repetition
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
orders weakness
Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment. Gary Thayer
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