Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

A line is not made up of points. ... In the same way, time is not made up parts considered as indivisible 'nows.' Part of Aristotle's reply to Zeno's paradox concerning continuity.

Seth MacFarlane

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

Stephen Jay Gould

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

John Milton

By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

Norbert Wiener

I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked, excess stomach acid is absorbed, and headaches go away-all during the commercial.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There is a theorem that colloquially translates, You cannot comb the hair on a bowling ball. ... Clearly, none of these mathematicians had Afros, because to comb an Afro is to pick it straight away from the scalp. If bowling balls had Afros, then yes, they could be combed without violation of mathematical theorems.

Ethan Zohn

My hair is my identity.

Erich von Stroheim

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

Erich von Stroheim

I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.

Fulton J. Sheen

Penance does not require hair shirts today; our neighbors are hair shirts.

Freddie Mercury

Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!

Francois Rabelais

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

Christina Aguilera

I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.

Chris Martin

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

Henry David Thoreau

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.