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.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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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.

  

  Walter Kirn
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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.

  

  Kage Baker
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• We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

  

  Candice S. Miller
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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.

  

  A. J. Liebling
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• Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

  

  Karl Marx
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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.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
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• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

  

  W. H. Auden
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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.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

  

  Carl Sagan
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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.

  

  Carl Sagan
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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.'

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
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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.

  

  Charles Darwin
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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.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.

  

  Albert Einstein
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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.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
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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.

  

  Daniel Tammet
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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.

  

  Chauncey Wright
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• Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun.

  

  Billy Campbell
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• Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it’s OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.

  

  Mark Williams
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• Time can but make her beauty over again.

  

  William Butler Yeats
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• Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

  

  Ernst Boris Chain
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• Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.

  

  Garth Ennis
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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.

  

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • Science
  • Appreciation
  • Conscious