Gayle King Quotes
There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.
Quotes to Explore
-
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
-
Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
-
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
-
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
-
Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
-
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
-
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
-
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
-
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
-
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
-
I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
-
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
-
Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
-
I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
-
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
-
God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
-
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
-
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
-
I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.
-
Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.
-
Training is not quite a thing for me yet. It is definitely on my list of things to do.
-
I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.
-
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
-
There's a science to ordering potatoes. Are they skinny shoestring or big, fat steak fries? You just have to let your taste buds guide you when deciding what to eat.
