Randall Munroe quotes - page 2

I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things work and why. (Randall Munroe)
But I've never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive. View quote
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I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at. View quote
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The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space-each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision. View quote
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You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right. View quote
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Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.' View quote
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Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. View quote
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News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones. View quote
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A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them. View quote
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Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit. View quote
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations. (Randall Munroe)
Space is about 100 kilometers away. That's far away-I wouldn't want to climb a ladder to get there-but it isn't that far away. If you're in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea. View quote
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There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. View quote
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? View quote
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The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to. View quote
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