1103ac Quotes & Sayings

To be scientifically literate is
to empower yourself to
know when someone else is
full of bullshit. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

China should significantly augment the foreign aid and public goods it provides, so it can use these as a bargaining chip in its efforts to get more say in global decision-making — Wang Yizhou

And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and commercial interest of its first two activities. — G. Edward Griffin

I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth. — Albert Einstein

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence
providing they have the facts, providing they have the information. — Studs Terkel

Cinder stood, staring. All her senses were attuned to Wolf, focused on the energy and emotions that clouded around him. It was like watching a candle extinguish.
It was like watching him die — Marissa Meyer

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue. — Plutarch

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. — Seth Lloyd

Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together — Evelyn Underhill

The other thing I felt was that the philosophical concept behind the experiences also looked like it had been designed by technicians and not by entertainers. I felt I needed to grab hold of it and try and push the envelope as much as I possibly could right now. — Thomas Dolby

If human beings really grasped how synthetic their world was - how much of it was stitched together not from direct perception, but from interpolation, memory, educated guesswork - they would go quietly mad. — Alastair Reynolds

'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers. — Damien Chazelle

But memory will forever replay this day in black and white, the slow voice-over pan of Movietone — Richard Powers

Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique. — Charlton Heston

We Russians cannot say anything in our own language ... At least we haven't yet. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky