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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
reality vision adequate
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. Bede Griffiths
reality ideas intellectual
Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. Billy Corgan
reality rocks important
That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology. Billy Corgan
reality limits permit
The permit limits are pretty close to what the reality is. Bill Clark
reality differences perception
Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that. Bill Cowher
reality body shapes
I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering. Bibhu Mohapatra
reality unbearable
Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable. C. S. Lewis
reality men lenses
Time is the very lens through which ye see -- small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope -- something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality. C. S. Lewis
reality air islands
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness. C. S. Lewis
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