Barack Obama Quotes
Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.Barack Obama
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
Gary Coleman -
A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
L. Ron Hubbard -
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung -
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham -
Science fiction writers missed the most salient feature of our modern era: the Internet.
Jack McDevitt
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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 -
I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
Olivia Wilde -
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov -
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
Larry Brown -
I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
Hannah Simone
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
Major Owens -
In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
Eddie Marsan -
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban -
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
Octavia E. Butler -
Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
Sally Ride
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We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides to scholars of many tongues and many heritages. In the long run, that spirit will inevitably have a constructive effect on the benefits which man can derive from knowledge of himself and his environment.
Stanford Moore -
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
Fiona Shaw -
I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.
Mary Roach -
Painting and illustration cannot be mixed—one cannot merge from one into the other.
N. C. Wyeth -
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
Olivia Newton-John -
Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science.
Barack Obama