Reset, readjust, restart, refocus.As many times as you need to.
Just don't quit!
The couples that are meant to be, are the ones who go through everything that is meant to tear them apart, and come out stronger.
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.
There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.
When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.
I want to put on the table, not why 85% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences reject God, I want to know why 15% of the National Academy don’t.
Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?
People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and we have only just begun.
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos.
To be scientifically literate is to empower yourself to know when someone else is full of shit.
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.
If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.
As the area of our knowledge grows, so too does the perimeter of our ignorance.
My life is what I make of it.
One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.
One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject to think you're wright, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.
Last I had kept count, there were fifty-six moons among the planets in the Solar System. Then I woke up one morning to learn that another dozen had been discovered around Saturn. After that incident, I decided to no longer keep track.
Had Herschel succeeded, the planet list would read: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and George.
In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.
Knowledge Strategy Execution
Motivation is a byproduct of action, not the catalyst for it.
Control your thoughts or your thoughts will control you.
Today is a new day. Stop living in the past.
Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase.
You attract what you are, not what you want. If you want great, then be great.
Your goals should scare you a little and excite you a lot.
