Quotes of: Life-science Keyword

The same few dozen organic molecules are used over and over again in biology for the widest variety of functions.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.

The Dosadi Experiment

At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.

The Dismal Science: A Novel

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it gave birth to the science of chemistry.

Familiar Letters on Chemistry

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Connie Willis

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Larry Wall

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

Vitruvius

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

Abraham Verghese

I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do.

Janna Levin

I don't think we have reached a point where art really translates into science. Perhaps for some people, having good visuals can help translate into science.

Lisa Randall

What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

...Once again confirms that there is no such thing as genetically pure classification into different races.

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture