I Quotes
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“In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.”
“In school, I wasn't a very good student - I was very irresponsible and never did the studying but always liked to get the laugh.”
“In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.”
“In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.”
“In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.”
“In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“In school, they would tell you that life wouldn’t come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don’t. Don’t go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.”
Source: Beauty Queens
“In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.”
“In school, writing was the only thing that really came naturally to me, but it wasn't until college that I realized that I could do it for more than just fun.”
“In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.”
“In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
“In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.”
“In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.”
Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence
“In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.”
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro
“In schools the art of investing in this different investment products is to an extent not taught. The Death Valley of education has created a division between what investing is and how to go about doing it. The secrecy in how to go about doing this is shocking”
Source: Time Value of Money: Timing Income
“In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads.”
“In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.”
“In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take up predetermined problems in a ritually defined setting. The most radical alternative to school would be a network or service which gave each man the same opportunity to share his current concern with others motivated by the same concern.”
Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays
“In schools, many kids are asked, "What is your plan?," but many aren't even thinking that far ahead.”
“In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.”
Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.”
Source: Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown
“In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results.”
“In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.”
“In Science don't confound
Normal static electricity
To ecstatic eccentricity.
Here is what I found:
Electric charges
As they rise up your hair
In contrast with a discharge,
Rarity leaves you up in the air!”
Source: ACross Tic
“In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.”
“In science fiction books characters always seem to have a weapon that can be set on stun. Do you have anything like that?” I asked. GERI laughed. He was getting better at it. “Yes, Tom, I have something like that.”
Source: Tom and G.E.R.I.
“In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.”
“In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.”
“In science it is not enough to think of an important problem on which to work. It is also necessary to know the means which could be used to investigate the problem.”
“In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."”
“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
“In science it's not the research that counts, but how it helps the people.”
Source: Good Scientist: When Science and Service Combine
“In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia ... is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”
“In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.”
“In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.”
Source: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
“In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.”
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.”
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history's inevitable imponderables. We evolutionary biologists cannot generate a Cretaceous Park to observe exactly what killed the dinosaurs; and, unlike "harder" scientists, we usually cannot resolve issues with a simple experiment, such as adding tube A to tube B and noting the color of the mixture.”
“In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.”
“In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.”
“In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
“In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.”
“In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.”
Source: Twice Seven: Stories
“In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.”
Source: Chance and necessity: an essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology
“In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.”
“In science there is something known as a stem cell. A stem cell is an undifferentiated cell which has not yet decided whether it's gonna be a cell of your brain or a cell of your heart or of your finger nail. But science is learning how to coax, how to manipulate, the raw material of life that we call stem cell to become any cell of the body. I think that God is the stem cell of the universe.”
“In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.”
“In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself.”
Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study
“In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.”