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Seth Shostak Quotes

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

Seth Shostak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american

Topics

Knowledge Science Ideas Thoughts

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

Jesse Ball

Funny Time Beginning End Edge Kind

Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.

John Burroughs

Tree Sail Flying Down Squirrel Top

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

John Mayer

Change Power People World Values

The thing about a plant is, let's say it will have 50 or 100 little points of bright red. If you look at the thing as it goes down, it becomes green in a way... It is way more spectacular than pointillist paintings where these things are played with, but never to the level of what happens in nature.

Robert Irwin

Nature Red Green Plant You Look

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

Michael Clarke Duncan

Say Reason Always Something Happens

There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.

John Sayles

People Story Movies Always Stuff

Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.

Michele Bachmann

People Employees Burden Want More

Soaps are a great springboard for any actor but if you want to be taken seriously, you have to be careful.

Michelle Ryan

Great You Want Seriously Actor Any

I want to put on performances no one else has. I want to be flawless every time.

Luke Rockhold

Time Want Flawless Every Else Put

Wars break things; they break stories.

Anthony Marra

Break Things Stories Wars

One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

Annie Besant

Nature Mother Great Mother Nature

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.

Anthony Davis

Good Today Time Team Prove Hard