Quotes of: Hawks Keyword

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

John Pople

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

David Hilbert

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Daniel Kahneman

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Daniel Kahneman

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Daniel Kahneman

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

Daniel Kahneman

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Daniel Kahneman

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

Johannes Kepler

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Ann Landers

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

Max Cannon

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

Clyde Tombaugh

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

Daniel Kahneman

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity.

Kip Thorne

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Kip Thorne

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you read all the time what other people have done, you will the think the way they thought.

Richard Hamming

No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I suppose it never occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented.

Whitfield Diffie

I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.

Whitfield Diffie