Natalie Angier Quotes

Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Natalie Angier

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Different
  • True

• The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Value
  • Production
  • YouTube

• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Death
  • Equality
  • Disease

• As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Long
  • College

• Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • You
  • Write
  • Original

• There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Good
  • Wise

• It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Women
  • Learn
  • Honor

• Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Long
  • Way
  • Annoying

• Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Career
  • Political
  • Trump

• Many support what I am doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Support

• We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Thought
  • Years

• If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

  

  Gary Ross
  • World
  • Learning
  • View

• If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Anyone that gets to side four is dumber than I am.

  

  Lou Reed

• Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality – it resists and makes demands..

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Important
  • Integrity
  • Intuition

• And, growing tired, we turn aside at last,Remember our secret selves, seek out our towers,Lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb;Climbing, each, to his little four-square dreamOf love or lust or beauty or death or crime.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Growing

• Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every window that modern astrophysics has opened to our mind, the person who wants to feel like they're the center of everything ends up shrinking.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Universe

• Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

  

  Paul Virilio
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Fall

• Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Reality
  • Beginning
  • Divorce

• I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Bad
  • Horrible
  • Remembering

• I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

  

  Ken Cuccinelli
  • Party
  • Focus
  • Tea

• Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

  

  Natalie Angier
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Science