Quotes of: Sound-science Keyword

I imagined a time when being gay is as unquestioned and un-judged as is having blue eyes. Some might call it fantasy or science fiction. I’d like to think it’s the future.

All Things Rise

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

The Harvest Of The Years

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world.

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1980

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.

It's Not You, It's Biology.: The Science of Love, Sex, and Relationships

Troops are everywhere in their modern, digital camouflage, designed to blend in anywhere at any time. Yet at night we wear bright yellow reflective belts.

Soldier / Geek: An Army Science Advisor's Journal of the War in Afghanistan

DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.

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

The more we build these networks and enrich our stores of memory and experience, the easier it is to learn, because what we already know serves as a foundation for forming increasingly complex thoughts.

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

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

The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.

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

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

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

it’s okay if college isn’t your thing. I’m sure there’s a pole somewhere with your name on it, but next time you might not want to buy your tits off Craig’s List. Just sayin’.

The Science of Loving

it’s okay if college isn’t your thing. I’m sure there’s a pole somewhere with your name on it, but next time you might not want to buy your tits off Craig’s List. Just sayin’....Danny James

The Science of Loving

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Over the last few millennial, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to outsource this fundamental human capacity.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

While science is now moving closer to documenting the effects of other-dimensional realities, even with the best technology in the world today, science can only observe effects, not the reality itself.

Multi-Dimensional You: Exploring Energetic Evolution

The folktale world is oriented positively toward its protagonist; a folktale is defined by the hero's triumph: magic weapons and helpers are, with the necessary narrative retardation, at his beck and call.

Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre

Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.

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

..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way

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

To point out nonepistemic motives in another’s view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person’s connection to the world as it is.

The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

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