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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
transition incorporation seems
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations. Alan Dundes
transition journalism
It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism. Brit Hume
transition rebel chaos
It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty. Brandon Sanderson
transition
We are the transition from one education to the other. Alfred Rosenberg
transition
The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets). Greg Buckner
transition work
We are in the transition state, and the inspectors will work under the NPT. Mohammad Saeedi
transition moments made
There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on. Ann Brashares
transition bells alarms
It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well. Bill Vaughan
transition transgender rejected
When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected? Chaz Bono
wave bigs ripple
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples Adam Braun
waves
We're just going to see this in waves over and over again. Cynda Crawford
wavelength rays energy
In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays. Claude Nicollier
wave clean
The waves of time wash us all clean. Colin Baker
wave ends minutes
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. William Shakespeare
wave bus passengers
I wave to the double-decker buses from my bike, but the passengers never wave back. Why? Am I not an attraction? David Byrne
wave ifs
If you're not making waves, you're not under weigh. Chester W. Nimitz
waves-breaking feet house
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
wave should felt
There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave Christian Slater