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I said that if an alien came to visit, I'd be embarrassed to tell them that we fight wars to pull fossil fuels out of the ground to run our transportation. They'd be like, 'What?' Neil deGrasse Tyson

Fight Alien Our Visit Embarrassed Out Tell Run Like Said Came Them Fuels Ground Transportation Wars Fossil Fossil Fuels Pull

My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. Richard Dawkins

Life Eyes Natural Physics Simple Build Chemistry Trees Extraordinary Constantly Fact Selection Take Facts Open Powerful How Redwood Existence Up Very Human Just Process Which Human Existence Them Natural Selection Wide Humans

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley

Beautiful Great Science Ugly Fact Hypothesis Great Tragedy Tragedy

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best. W. Edwards Deming

Best You Enough Must Do Your Best Know Then Your

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. Wernher von Braun

Science Sometimes Overwhelming Paperwork Lick Gravity

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. William Osler

Physician First Medicine Take Masses Educate Duties

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. William Osler

Best Water Sense Common Soap Common Sense

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. William Osler

Man Animals Medicine Distinguishes Feature Take Perhaps Greatest Which Desire

Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting. Aaron Ciechanover

Life Science Chemistry Our Feeding Reactions Supremely Talking Chemical Chemical Reactions Walking Essentially Processes Interesting Moving Actually Biochemistry

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. Andrew Weil

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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. Benjamin Banneker

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We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. Carl Sagan

Atoms Example Evolution Cosmic Cosmos Given Hydrogen Years Representatives Billion

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan

Clown Laughed Some Brothers Wright Wright Brothers Fact Columbus Imply Also Geniuses Does Were The Wright Brothers Who

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. Charles Darwin

God Myself Living Omnipotent Beneficent Would Parasitic Feeding Within Intention Cannot Created Bodies Persuade Express Wasps

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA. David Suzuki

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So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount. Donald Norman

Teacher Good Good Teacher Tension Does Just Create Right Amount

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so. Galileo Galilei

Make Measurable Measure

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. Grace Hopper

Forgiveness Easier Permission Than Often Ask

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. Hippocrates

Knowledge Ignorance Science Father Opinion Breeds

Life is short, the art long. Hippocrates

Life Art Life Is Short Long Short

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant

Progress Out Only He Makes Sticks His Behold Turtle Neck

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