Quotes of: Hawks Keyword

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory.

Alan Guth

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Andrew Wiles

It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Nathan Myhrvold

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

It may be that our cosmic curiosity... is a genetically-encoded force that we illuminate when we look up and wonder.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The supermoon is a 16-inch pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza. It's a slightly bigger moon; I ain't using the adjective 'supermoon.'

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

Orson Pratt

I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.

Orson Pratt

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

Philip Emeagwali

Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.

Philip Emeagwali

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Pierre de Fermat

P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

Paulo Freire

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

Paulo Freire