![So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.](/assets/img/quote-photos/so-fabricius-i-already-have-this-that-the-most-true-path-of-the-planet-mars.jpg)
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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.
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.
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.
differences competition world
Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money. Benjamin Rush
differences making-a-difference world
I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way. Bill Bryson
differences people rich
The primary difference between rich people and poor people is how they handle fear Robert Kiyosaki
differences done records
You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference. Beck
differences listening done
They do what they do for money - that's all. I don't even know why you're listening to me. I've done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can't even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is. Dave Chappelle
differences profound way
The difference between the first time I read something and the tenth time I read something is generally pretty profound. Even if the script is the same, just the way that I read it is different. David Sedaris
differences economic-globalization internationalism
In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization. David Korten
differences numbers world
Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you. David D. Burns
differences interesting surface
Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences. Dave Barry
path resistance
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. Napoleon Hill
path talked
We've talked with PATH about establishing a vaccine-development center. Peter Andrews
pathetic
I think it's f-----g pathetic to be belittling him, Robin Penn
path
We're on a different path with the same goal.
path start time
I did start down that path some time ago,
pathetic players quite sorry time
I feel really sorry for the players at this time of year. I find it quite pathetic to be truthful.
path detours something-better
Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along. Darren Shan
path interest deeper
If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you. Caitlin Flanagan
path covenant mercy
There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant." They say there is no rule without an exception, but there is an exception to that rule. Charles Spurgeon