Quotes of: Rocket-science Keyword

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preempti...

Gary Larson

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the ...

Harvey V. Fineberg

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exact...

Jack W. Szostak

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and ...

Janine di Giovanni

Rocket Raccoon: [about Drax] His people are completely literal. Metaphors go over his head. Drax the Destroyer: *Nothing* goes over my head...! My reflexes are too fast, I would catch it.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Gamora: And Quill, your ship is filthy. Gamora: [She walks away] Peter Quill: Oh she has no idea. If I had a blacklight, this would look like a Jackson Pollock painting. Rocket Raccoon: You got issues, Quill.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Joe Franklin: [reporting on the Ghostbusters] Well, everybody's heard ghost stories around the campfire. Heck, my grandma used to spin yarns about a spectral locomotive that would rocket past the farm where she grew up! But now, as if some unforeseen...

Ghostbusters

Captain Ramius: It reminds me of the heady days of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin when the world trembled at the sound of our rockets. Now they will tremble again - at the sound of our silence. The order is: engage the silent drive.

The Hunt for Red October

ED-209: [seeing RoboCop drive up to the OCP entrance] You are illegally parked on private property. You have twenty seconds to move your vehicle. [Just as it gets ready to shoot, RoboCop uses the Cobra rocket launcher to destroy the ED-209]

RoboCop

Stanley Goodspeed: You know, I like history too, and maybe when this is all over you and I can stop by the souvenir shop together but right now I just... I just wanna find some rockets!

The Rock

Sabrina Fairchild: I might as well be reaching for the moon. Baron St. Fontanel: The moon? Baron St. Fontanel: [laughs] Oh, you young people! You are so old-fashioned. Have you not heard? We are building rockets to reach the moon!

Sabrina

Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had f...

Colin Angle

I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is ...

Elizabeth Wurtzel

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and ...

Alice Walker

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

Eugenics, the Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding

at least a fifth of all mammalian species are bats.

Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

Larry Wall

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

The Impact of Science on Society

If you have a fight with yourself, who can win?

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica