Allan Sandage Quotes

Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

Allan Sandage

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• I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Play
  • Easy
  • Smiling

• I am a passionate civil libertarian.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Passionate
  • Libertarian
  • Civil

• Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Trade

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Space

• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Happiness

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Everyone
  • System

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • American
  • Internet

• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Things
  • Name
  • Straight

• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Time
  • Style
  • Same

• I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Friends
  • Audience
  • Group

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Character
  • Ambition
  • First

• Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • May
  • Power
  • America

• I look forward to working closely with the Research Councils, Innovate UK, and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as we work together to create UKRI. I also look forward to working closely with all of our research and innovation communities to provide a strong and coherent voice for U.K. science and innovation.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Work
  • Together
  • Science

• And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

  

  Max Born
  • Science

• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Thought

• Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Ambition
  • Error
  • Tear

• Science is the only self-correcting human institution, but it also is a process that progresses only by showing itself to be wrong.

  

  Allan Sandage
  • Science
  • Human
  • Institution