When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a… — William Beckett Copy Share Image
Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Finding your look isn't complicated if you go in without being frightened. Notice what people are complimenting you on. Experiment with new… — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates… — Friedrich Loeffler Copy Share Image
What we initially conceived as a fairly simple geologic experiment on Mars ultimately turned into humanity's first real overland expedition across another… — Steve Squyres Copy Share Image
The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; /… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Mary's [Hamill] working from an outsider perspective and I'm working from an insider-outside perspective. In this case, it will bring an added… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
It simply feels right to me to blend the glittery delights of New York City with a largely raw vegan diet -… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
“Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypotheses. But man, because he has only one life… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on… — John Tyler Bonner Copy Share Image
Utopia is a meta-utopia: the environment in which Utopian experiments may be tried out; the environment in which people are free to… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
You know which guys are doing steroids and which ones aren't. I don't judge anybody. Everybody has their own life and people… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this… — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
That is the American experiment. An ethnic group arriving on America's shores, to be reviled and hazed, living in squalor, or if… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . .… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Good innovators are careful observers, network extensively, run experiments, ask lots of questions, and find ways to bring diverse ideas together. Overarching… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
To me the greatest moment in an experiment is always just before I learn whether the particular idea is a good or… — Ivar Giaever Copy Share Image
You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment and nobody else shows up and… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image