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- Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
- My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology,…
- An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.
- Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"…
- Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.…
- I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
- All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based -…
- How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger…
- One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me…
- A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of…
- Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The…
- These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught…
- When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different…
- It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with…
- We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten…
- Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe.
- The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our…
- Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting…
- I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.
- Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more…
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works,…
- I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more…
- Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten…
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle