642 quotes found
“Not all social animals are social with the same degree of commitment. In some species, the members are so tied to each other and interdependent as to seem the loosely conjoined cells of a tissue. T...”
“The individual parts played by other instrumentalists-- crickets or earthworms, for instance-- may not have the sound of music by themselves, but we hear them out of context. If we could listen to ...”
“Working on a typewriter by touch, like riding a bicycle or strolling on a path, is best done by not giving it a glancing thought. Once you do, your fingers fumble and hit the wrong keys. To do thin...”
“It is not a simple thing to decide where we fit, for at one time or another in our lives we manage to organize in every imaginable social arrangement...We have names to label each as self, and we b...”
“Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an essential, indispensable element for the transfer of informa...”
“It is in our collective behavior that we are the most mysterious. We won't be able to construct machines like ourselves until we've understood this, and we're not even close. All we know is the phe...”
“Science is based not on faith but in skeptism”
“Many sheep but one Shepherd.”
“Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people wh...”
“The human condition to ignore or dispel ideas is an admission of fear by oneself and refusing to seek out the phenomena of the unknown, to complete the cycle of understanding through greater knowle...”
“An informed world is not only for today, but a legacy to shape a better world and future for tomorrow.”
“Time is not made of atoms to manipulate it back.”
“Another ship. Its the best news I could ever have imagined. Who are they going to send? Whos coming?I stare out of the helm window, straining my eyes against the infinite blackness, pressing my fin...”
“Inthe scientific community, the adjective theological is some-times used pejoratively to refer to a vague or ill-formulatedbelief. I believe this usage to be very far from the truth. It sad-dens me...”
“As a consequence, scientists who are carefully reflectiveabout their activity do not instinctively ask the question Is itreasonable? as if they were confident beforehand what shaperationality had t...”
“People will tell you that you have to know math to be a scientist, or physics or chemistry. They're wrong. ... What comes first is a question, and you're already there. It's not nearly as involved ...”
“The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them”
“It is now almost possible to assign color combinations, based on the colors of clouds and sky, to every planet in the Solar Systemfrom the sulfur-stained skies of Venus and the rusty skies of Mars ...”
“We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. Knowledge is our destiny”
“The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.”
