Quotes of: Life-science Keyword

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

When enter the whole new world, men will deal with new science. To embrace a new science, men need to get used to new wisdom.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.

The Science of Self-Realization

... a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.

Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Quicksilver

Science doesn’t listen. Science has mice growing out of its ears. Wait, I mean human ears growing out of its mice.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

After the series, other series have entered the domain of analysis; they entered by the same door; they have been imagined in view of applications.

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

They made a science out of people?" she said. "What a crazy science that must be." --"Mr. Z

While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops.

The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Ray Bradbury

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

Rachel Carson

Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.

Richard Diaz

If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrume...

Lord Acton

I'm only interested in science fiction that's used as a literary device, a shortcut into something more exploratory or universal about our experience. That's why I think it was invented and why mythology was invented; it's a tool, not an end to itsel...

Shane Carruth