Quotes of: Sound-science Keyword

Captain von Trapp: Oh, there's nothing wrong with the children. Only the governesses.

The Sound of Music

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Salman Rushdie

To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.

Nicole Holofcener

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

Adam Jones

Jaime had never realised that trees made a sound when they grew, and no-one else had realised it either, because the sound is made over hundreds of years in waves of twenty-four hours from peak to peak. Speed it up, and the sound a tree makes is .

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

We look so very different from the way we sound. It’s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when you’re forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dis...

Late Nights on Air

Words. Just little black marks on paper. Just sounds in the empty air. But think of the power they have! They can make you laugh or cry, love or hate, fight or run away. They can heal or hurt. They even come to look and sound like what they mean. Ang...

A Touch of Wonder

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as w...

Chip Kidd

Rolfe: [narrating a "telegram" for Liesl] Dear Liesl, I would like to tell you how I feel about you STOP Unfortunately, this wire is already too expensive Sincerely, Rolfe Liesl: [sounded offended] Sincerely? Rolfe: Cordially? Liesl: [turning away] C...

The Sound of Music

Man träumt gar nicht, oder interessant -- Man muss lernen, ebeson zu wachen: -- gar nicht, oder interessant

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

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

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

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Jacob Bronowski

The map of what we call reality is an ever-shifting mosaic of ideas.

The Island of Knowledge: The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Nationalism has little to contribute today except further suffering.

Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And Politics

We're going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night. But this flash means everything.

The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Where is Science Going?

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

The Will to Power

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

China Mieville