Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Quotes
Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
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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.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
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The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.
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The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.'
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
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The method of viewing things which proceeds in accordance with the principle of sufficient reason is the rational method, and it alone is valid and of use in practical life and in science. The method which looks away from the content of this principle is the method of genius, which is only valid and of use in art.
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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.
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We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
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If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
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I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.
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We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.
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I feel really fortunate that I've been given a lot of roles that were very different from each other. For me, variety is the key. I don't want to play the same thing over and over again.
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Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.
