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You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.
Sophie Turner
Be happy
Sad character
Otherwise
Get depressed
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Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.
Stephen Leacock
Astronomy teachers
Correct us
The sun
The planets
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It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen Leacock
Political economy
Politics
Economy
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Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
Stephen Jay Gould
Skepticism
The agent
Organized irrationalism
Human social
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Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.
Stephen Jay Gould
Life
Is short
Potential studies
Infinite
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People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.
Stephen Jay Gould
Human intelligence
Greatest adaptation
The history
The planet
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Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.
Stephen Jay Gould
Nothing matches
The holiness
Fascination
Accurate intricate detail
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Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.
Stephen Jay Gould
Geology
The immensity
Time
Taught us
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If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.
Stephen Jay Gould
We use
The past
Creature heroes
Present purpose
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Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.
Stephen Jay Gould
Alter
Any event
Apparent importance
The time
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Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings.
Stephen Jay Gould
Knowledge
Wonder
Worthy lives
Intellectual beings
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Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.
Stephen Jay Gould
Evolution
Fascinating subjects
The sciences
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I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
Stephen Jay Gould
Academic writing
Was wonderful
Science
Less specialized
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We pass through this world but once.
Stephen Jay Gould
Pass through
This world
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Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
Few tragedies
More extensive
Life
Few injustices
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
Stephen Jay Gould
Creationist critics
That evolution
Be tested
Be viewed
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Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans.
Stephen Jay Gould
Life began
Arose spontaneously
Organic compounds
Primeval oceans
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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen Hawking
In danger
Destroying ourselves
Our greedy
Increasingly polluted
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
Computer viruses
Should court
As life
Human nature
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Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen Hawking
Was horrible
The survival
Human race
Nuclear weapons
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Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Stephen Hawking
Science
A discipline
Reason
Romance
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I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective
Stephen Hawking
I believe
Everyone
Broad picture
Universe operate
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Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualize 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.
Stephen Hawking
Evolution
Has ensured
Our brains
Equipped
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I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.
Stephen Hawking
Grew up
Thinking
Research scientist
Natural thing
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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
Stephen Hawking
The past
The future
Is indefinite
A spectrum
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What was God doing before the divine creation?
Stephen Hawking
God doing
Divine creation
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I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth
Stephen Hawking
I believe
Alien life
Quite common
Intelligent life
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Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.
Stephen Hawking
Most people
Have time
To master
Mathematical details
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Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
Stephen Hawking
Keeping
An active mind
Been vital
My survival
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Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
Stephen Hawking
Science
Lift people
Poverty
Cure disease
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The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
Stephen Fry
Only reason
Care
Incurious
Foolish failing
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Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.
Stephen Fry
Life
Learning what
Ashamed of
Proud of
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Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
Stephen Fry
Love
Money
The root
All evil
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If you are easily offended you are easily manipulated.
Makosi Musambasi
Easily offended
Manipulated
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Its easy to judge others. It only takes seconds to form your opinion, but it takes a lifetime to understand them and build them up.
Lateef Adedimeji
Judge others
Takes seconds
Your opinion
Lifetime
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It's easy to put people down when you've not walked in their shoes.
Lateef Adedimeji
It's easy
People down
Not walked
Their shoes
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You might not know enough but teach anyway. You might not be good enough but showcase your work anyway.
Lateef Adedimeji
Know enough
Teach anyway
Good
Showcase
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Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.
Steffi Graf
Age
Figure
Meant
Me
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Great people don’t talk about people, they talk about ideas. If you want to succeed, no matter how tempting it maybe, don’t talk bad about people behind their back they’re not your problem.
Lateef Adedimeji
Great people
Talk about
Ideas
To succeed
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Steffi Graf
Hanker
Past
Devote
New tasks
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As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.
Steffi Graf
Focus
Enjoying
Fun
Play
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Stella Adler
You
Studies
Classroom
Universe
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Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.
Stella Adler
Job
Actors
Understand
Word
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You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
Stella Adler
You
Something
Become
Profession
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You will fail. That's great. Here's a secret for you - that's the only way you can learn. Learning has to cost you something. If you fail but learn something from your failure, you will grow.
Stella Adler
You
Fail
Learning
Grow
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The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.
Stella Adler
Actor
Develop
Work
Mind
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I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.
Stellan Skarsgard
Treat
Equals
Work
Happy
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I've never thought of myself as a professional. I very rarely do something I don't enjoy.
Stellan Skarsgard
Thought
Professional
Rarely
Enjoy
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Our true passions are selfish.
Stendhal
Our
True
Passion
Selfish
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
Stendhal
Styles
Beauty
Visions
Happiness
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