Frank Drake Quotes

Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

Frank Drake

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• While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Day

• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nature

• Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Complicated

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Cheating

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Water

• If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Want
  • Man

• I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

  

  Barbara Block
  • Nature
  • Parents
  • Me

• Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Party
  • Justice

• I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Different
  • Women
  • Nature

• The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Day
  • Morning

• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Conspiracy

• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Father

• We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Legacy

• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Effort

• When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

  

  Lurlene McDaniel
  • Time
  • God
  • Mind

• Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to shield them from knowledge of the real dangers and opportunities.

  

  George Gilder
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• Nature never uses prime numbers. But mathematicians do.

  

  Frank Drake
  • Nature