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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
simple sound realizing
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. C. S. Lewis
simple two people
What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word. Cecelia Ahern
simple together plans
Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives. Cecelia Ahern
simple people trying
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working. Carrie Mae Weems
simple sound corny
That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was. Carl Perkins
simple self perfect
There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. Carl Sagan
simple views world
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. Bernard Beckett
simple government devil
A simple democracy is the devil's own government. Benjamin Rush
simple views ideas
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds. Benoit Mandelbrot
understanding world daily-life
We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. Carl Sagan
understanding important
The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do. Bill Buford
understanding works
I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place. Rick Wakeman
understanding worked
I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do. Emma Stone
understanding
My sense is that there is a new understanding, yes. David Blunkett
understanding
My understanding is that Pedro, very frankly, is doubtful. Gene Orza
understanding
My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on. Crystal Chappell
understanding weapon
My understanding is that he didn't have a weapon when he was arrested, Ray Nelson
understanding
I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job. John Sweeney