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science
Science is to find something unknown, while invention is to make something new out of the known theory. Ivar Giaever
science
'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science. Ivar Giaever
science tinkering
I was always into science fiction as a kid. I loved science and tinkering with things. David Hanson
science writers
Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes. William Gibson
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
errors freely time
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. Gerrit Smith
errors obvious
Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can't see any difference between take one and take 20. Clint Eastwood
errors elude-us generations
Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . . Carl Sagan
errors trial-and-error trials
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) Carl Sagan
errors views rigidity
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors. Carl Sagan
errors giving challenges
We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs. Carl Sagan
errors speech opinion
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of his opinion? Bertrand Russell
errors crank
More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. Bertrand Russell
errors commit ifs
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit? Bertrand Russell
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. Algernon Charles Swinburne
barren corpses days death division lives loves marriage time turns
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives Algernon Swinburne
barren england harsh love passing rough stormy
New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions. Henry Cabot Lodge
barren dreams fast field frozen hold life
Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes
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Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho. Samuel Daniel
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Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment. Isabella Bird
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Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities. Thomas Sowell
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No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches, or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars. William Winter
barren coasts fallen flying grace lies passed says summer
'The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away. Alexander MacLaren