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Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

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• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Different
  • May
  • Understanding

• I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Different
  • Things
  • Doing

• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Day
  • End

• I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Life
  • Different
  • Long

• I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Different
  • Opinions

• In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Learning

• A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Different
  • Myself

• Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • More
  • Religions

• At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Science
  • Engineering

• What's so cool about movies is once you're done with the movie, you put it away and come up with a whole new different idea with different characters and a different world. But in TV, you build these characters, and you build this world, and then you're there for however long you do the show.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Speak

• I think I'm kind of attracted to the material more than the medium. I'm not opposed to doing a television show, though. I actually think there are a couple of good ones. And there is some terrible theater. Film is a very different kind of acting.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• I was this weird misfit guy from suburban Seattle, I never really fit in, and then I became a drama geek, among all the other different kinds of geek that I was growing up, and I found I was pretty good at it.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self - in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Mirror

• I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work
  • Science

• People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The fact is that one significant way the Iranians have a posture different from the North Koreans, the North Koreans basically are saying we have a nuclear program. We are seeking weapons. We have produced weapons. We're proud of the fact that we have weapons.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Different
  • Proud

• I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

  

  Dorothy Kilgallen
  • Help
  • Hand
  • Car

• Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Different
  • Science
  • Animal