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Linus Pauling Quote: 'Facts are the air of scientists. ...'

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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
Ivan Pavlov
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Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.


Peter Diamandis
When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
Gene Simmons
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My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
Maurice Allais
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It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.


Wilbur Wright
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Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.


Marlo Thomas
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
Wilbur Wright
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We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren't seeing the soul in there.
James Gleick
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Tell them to send everything that can fly.


Richard M. Nixon
I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.
Jerry Doyle
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.


Dale Earnhardt
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Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.


Tom Clancy
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
Philip Roth
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.
Leonardo da Vinci
I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane.
Anne Wojcicki
One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James D. Watson
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Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.


Rita Rudner
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The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
Erwin Schrodinger
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My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.


Antony Garrett Lisi
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I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.


Stephen Hawking