Ann Druyan Quotes
Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
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Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
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I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
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I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.
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An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.
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"Methodological naturalism" and "metaphysical naturalism" are terms that often surface in the continuing battle between evolutionary biology and creationism/intelligent design. The methodological thesis says that scientific theories shouldn't postulate supernatural entities; the metaphysical thesis says that no such entities exist. In this debate, God is the supernatural entity at issue; the question isn't whether science gets to talk about mathematical entities if Platonism is correct.
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Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.
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A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
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Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
