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science people water
He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars. Neil deGrasse Tyson
science people empowerment
People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. Neil deGrasse Tyson
science data needs
Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help. Neil deGrasse Tyson
science moon news
You can make a stack high enough to reach the moon and back, and only then will you have used your 100 billion hamburgers. This is terrifying news to cows. Neil deGrasse Tyson
science things-in-life ideas
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas. Neil deGrasse Tyson
science thinking discovery
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. Marie Curie
science air listening
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. Margaret Mead
science ions together
I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions. Michael Faraday
science atoms carbon
Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. James Jeans
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
men years advice
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge
men happiness-and-success foundation
The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life. Richard G. Scott
men hands way-in-life
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand. Sydney Smith
men adjusting faces
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role. Sandra Ford
men mind sides
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him. Anna Jameson
men childhood pay
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never. Anna Jameson
two feet west
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east... Aldous Huxley
two challenges majority
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. E. O. Wilson
two doubt progress
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool. T. S. Eliot
two creative minorities
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. Susan Sontag
two world extinction
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. Susan Sontag
two people female
The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. Susan Sontag
two killers gorgeous
Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous Scott Westerfeld
two cigar two-things
There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one. Raul Julia
two car would-be
I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car. Ratan Tata