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I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.
I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.
The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.
The most exciting thing that we have found with Cassini is the geological activity, the geysering activity at the south pole of Enceladus.
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.
It's a misconception that Beauty is in the Eyes of beholder. In my view, Beauty must be in the Heart of beholder for her true appreciation.
The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.
We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.
As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself.
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.
There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle
Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.
There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.
Back before the Kuiper Belt was discovered, Pluto did look like a misfit that didn't belong with either the terrestrials or the giant planets.
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer
One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
If it squirms, it's biology; if it stinks, it's chemistry; if it doesn't work, it's physics; and if you can't understand it, it's mathematics.
Historically, central planners have generally done a poor job of managing economic resources - this we've known since the time of the Pharaohs.
There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.
There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.
I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.
Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.