Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0...
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so i...
For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It chan...
I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable a...
Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativ...
For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackne...
Nathan: C'mon buddy. After a long day of Turing tests you gotta unwind. Caleb: What were you doing with Ava? Nathan: What? Caleb: You tore up her picture. Nathan: I'm gonna tear up the f*in' dance floor, dude. Check it out.
Stewart Menzies: [candidates are taking a timed test] Six minutes... is that even possible? Alan Turing: No, it takes me eight. Joan Clarke: [raises her hand] Alan Turing: You're finished?... Five minutes thirty four seconds. Joan Clarke: You said to...
Lando: Lord Vader, we only use this facility for carbon freezing. If you put him in there it might kill him. Darth Vader: I do not want the Emperor's prize damaged. We will test it on Captain Solo.
[Riker, LaForge and Cochrane have made humanity's first warp speed test flight] Dr. Zefram Cochrane: Is that Earth? Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge: That's it! Dr. Zefram Cochrane: It's so small... Cmdr. William Riker: It's about to get a whole ...
Spock: The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc on students and equipment. As I recall you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was, shall we say, unique? Kirk: It had the virtue of never having been tried.
Magneto: What happended? Sabretooth: They knew. Magneto: Charles! [Magneto examines Wolverine's army dog tags that Sabertooth is now wearing] Magneto: Where's the mutant now? Sabretooth: With them. Magneto: I have made the first move. That is all the...
Lieutenant Gonville Bromhead: Adendorff, what's wrong with them? Why don't they fight? Adendorff: They're counting your guns. Lieutenant John Chard: *What?* Adendorff: Can't you see that old boy up on the hill? He's counting your guns. Testing your f...
[Taken off the crew for a viral infection] Ken Mattingly: Well, I... damn. Medical guys. I had a feeling when they started doing all the blood tests that I... I mean I know it's their asses if I get sick up there but I mean JESUS!
My junior year, I went to an LSAT-prep course. I flipped over my test and thought, 'You bastards.' I walked out and went to Waffle House. That's where I had what I call 'The Waffle House Epiphany': I didn't want to be a lawyer. I wanted to make a den...
Did you ever hear one of those corny, positive messages on someone's answering machine? 'Hi, it's a great day and I'm out enjoying it right now. I hope you are too. The thought for the day is share the love. Beep.' 'Uh, yeah, this is the VD clinic…...
Love," as he now conceived of it, involved "slow growth, many slowly formed bonds, tests by vicissitudes as well as pleasure, mutual sharing of esthetic experiences, humor, sensory things from food through music to passion, etc." Any truly lasting re...
Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is "absorption," which describes a particul...
The only thing I won't watch is darts. And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test? And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go w...
He turned the entire living room into an airport, complete with a four-foot-high LEGO traffic control tower and a fleet of paper planes, plastic army pilots taped safely into their cockpits. From deep beneath the couch, a large utility flashlight ill...
We piled aboard the small chopper and after a bit of map pointing to the pilot we lifted off. "I love the RAF," said Jed. "I love them too, sir," said I. After a short flight the chopper landed. We all got out and waved our thanks and farewells to th...
