Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.
The reality of life is that, your friends can deny you, your family can deny you but God will never deny you.
Denis: Eighth floor? Alexander Kerner: Yup. Denis: Elevator? Alexander Kerner: Broken. Denis: Shit. Alexander Kerner: You can say that again.
We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.
The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
To deny everything is to confess everything.
I think there are profound differences between women and men. In intelligence and creativity, there is no difference, but in what one loves, what one likes, the passions - there are differences.
Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
Denis: Denis [handing Alex a video cassette] Denis: It's my best production ever. A pity your Mom will be the only audience...
Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.
You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.
He who denies all confesses all.
I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.
Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.
A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.
You cannot deny the struggle; the struggle denies you.
