329 quotes found
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”
“I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and ...”
“The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.”
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
“Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian...”
“We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than ...”
“Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it ca...”
“The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.”
“When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our stren...”
“Thinking differently is my strength.”
“Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.”
“As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.”
“Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.”
“Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.”
“When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.”
“In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.”
“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.”
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down.”
“The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.”
“I think the political class in Berlin doesn't need to be supervised and monitored by intelligence services in order to find out what they're thinking. Just go to lunch with them, go to dinner with ...”
