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The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

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• Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Science
  • Curiosity
  • Testing

• I have been surfing since I was six years old.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Years
  • Old
  • Surfing

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Myself
  • Pain

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • You
  • Reason
  • Years

• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Race
  • Autobiography

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• I'm very interested in science.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Science
  • Very
  • Interested

• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Science
  • Wine
  • Season

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• 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.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Years
  • Year
  • Last

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • People
  • Present
  • Meeting

• When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Me
  • Change
  • Race

• All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Art
  • She

• 'Superbetter' looks more like a social media platform or a social network than a typical video game. You know, there aren't any 3-d spaces to explore. You don't have this avatar that you're building up. It's more about thinking like a gamer.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Game

• I’ve no idea what I shall do when I am grown! I don’t suppose there is much call for Knights or Bishops or Heroines in Omaha or even Chicago. And I’m sure other girls are much better at it than I.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Girls
  • Knights
  • Bishops

• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Mother
  • Taken

• I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.

  

  Lucy Hale
  • Country
  • Mom

• The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

  

  H. Bentley Glass
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