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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
ethos everywhere hunger street thrives wall
Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial. Tina Brown
ethos faults methodology
We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos. Adam Savage
ethos people valleys
Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money. Daphne Koller
ethos action deny
Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers. Darren Johnson
ethos mad childhood
The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence. Alison Bechdel
ethos vision world
Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction. bell hooks
ethos vision directors
To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision. Jane Campion
ethos physics economics
So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics. Charlie Munger
ethos rocks people
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value... Greg Graffin
used weirdo magnet
I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to. Brian Molko
used listening-to-music knows
You know I used to listen to music a lot more. Brett Favre
used predecessors successors
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
used cents intervals
Cents are the most universally used interval measure. Alexander John Ellis
used boxes bits
I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight. Alexander Hanson
used pampered
Celebrities become divas because they get pampered so much, babied so much - then they get used to it Adrian Grenier
used strokes used-to-be
I used to be afraid of things like strokes, but I've now discovered that the fear of the stroke is worse than the stroke itself. Ram Dass
used heard
I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze. Davey Havok
used understood
I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood. Bjork