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Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon…

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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation,…
With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have…
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the…
After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a…
Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is…
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying…
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on…
Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I…
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the…
On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup…
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went…

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All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or… — Maya Angelou
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer… — Unknown Author
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient. — Horace
Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that… — Andre Gide
I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to… — Sonia Sotomayor
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. — Alan Paton
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the… — Konrad Lorenz
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way. — Abraham Lincoln
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it… — Ambrose Bierce
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King

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