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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.


Dame Rebecca West

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STEVE MARTIN It seems improbable to me that ... politics hasn't trumped science here, which is a tragedy,
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LEO ATKINSON Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
EDSGER W. DIJKSTRA Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
EDSGER DIJKSTRA Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. DIJKSTRA Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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BEN VEREEN Anyway, there were more after the war than before.
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MICHAEL CLOUGH To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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JAY HENRY We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutes...
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STEVEN HALL It seems like we need to do a little bit more than just advising.
UMED AJANI Scientists face a challenge in forging constructive relations with a public that at times seems host...
GILBERT OMENN There's no urgency there seems to me here, ... There's no evidence by the science that says there's ...
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CRISS JAMI Science is the father of war and Nature is the mother of peace.
VIKRANT PARSAI Deep down, creationists realize they will never win factual arguments with science. This is why they...
FRANS DE WAAL It seems like the malls are more crowded.
EDWIN QUICHOCHO If you would have seen it before and to see it now - it looks like a war zone.
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CARL GRIFFITH It looks like a war zone.
TED DENNY Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is ficti...
JEAN M. AUEL The idea behind the show, ... was to take nine people and say, 'Nine people look out into the blackn...
JOSS WHEDON Well tonight we’re passing an amendment. I call it Jander’s Law.
HENRY V. O'NEIL Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
KEN BLANCHARD Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science
STEVEN MAGEE Before war there is peace, after war its just the silence.
AHMAD TALAL ASIF It was like war. I'd never seen anything like it before, a child, a baby, blood everywhere, the smel...
MICHAEL HARTLICH More than the cost, whether economic or the maiming, suffering and loss of life, death; war just see...
LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL It's the first time I've seen him happy. He seems to have a lot more bounce in his step. It just see...
BOB LAMONTE The world situation today seems pretty grim, almost everyone ready for a battle or a war. There goes...
APURVA GAGLANI News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a w...
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CHAD MYERS When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
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WALTER CRONKITE It seems like the right shoulder becomes loaded more.
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STEVEN SCHIER It seems like a lifetime since I left.
JORDIS UNGA It seems like a denial of natural justice.
LLOYD WILLIAMS It seems like a wonderful thing to do.
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NORM NEGUS It's a long story. Want a refill?"
"No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?"
"Right...
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REBECCA MACKINNON I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular...
REBECCA HALL I definitely got my philanthropic genes from my mom and dad. They taught me from a very early age to...
REBECCA GAYHEART An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger int...
REBECCA MCNUTT She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a p...
REBECCA MCNUTT Every day it’s something worse being predicted. Mearth says that sooner or later copyright on book...
REBECCA MCNUTT Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ...
REBECCA MCNUTT Love helped me live life instead of just survive it.
REBECCA DONOVAN We were engaged in a very intricate dance of touching without touching, knowing without saying, and ...
REBECCA DONOVAN Caro remembered how it was to lie so unself-consciously next to her best friends. Her aging body rec...
REBECCA WELLS