Ahmed H. Zewail Quotes

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

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• I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Science
  • Political

• My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Life
  • Character
  • Science

• I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Book
  • Science
  • Technology

• I love science fiction.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Science
  • Fiction

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Women
  • Career
  • Science

• The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Science
  • Creative
  • Will

• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Powerful
  • Engineering

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Science
  • Positive
  • Possible

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

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Success
  • Science
  • Result

• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Science
  • Giving
  • Body

• Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Power
  • Soul

• The constant questioning of our values and achievements is a challenge without which neither science nor society can remain healthy.

  

  Aage Bohr
  • Society
  • Science
  • Challenge

• Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Science

• The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't.

  

  Carl Hart
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• Student loans, Social Security, and Medicare make a difference in the lives of working families every day, and the conversation that should be taking place is how we can save these programs, not weaken them.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Make A Difference

• He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

• There's childhood and early onset bipolar, but it transitions in your early adulthood into something a little bit different, and extremely severe. It was at that time that my impulse control just went out the window. Impulse control when you're manic just disappears.

  

  Marya Hornbacher
  • Time
  • Different
  • Control

• Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Heart

• There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

  

  Ahmed H. Zewail
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