5,159 Quotes About Mean

  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

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  • Author Neil deGrasse Tyson
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    The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.

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  • Author Nikola Tesla
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    I am part of a light, and it is the music. The Light fills my six senses: I see it, hear, feel, smell, touch and think. Thinking of it means my sixth sense. Particles of Light are written note. A bolt of lightning can be an entire sonata. A thousand balls of lightening is a concert.. For this concert I have created a Ball Lightning, which can be heard on the icy peaks of the Himalayas.

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  • Author Nikola Tesla
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    I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you in the most general way, the cosmic ray ionizes the air, setting free many charges - ions and electrons. These charges are captured in a condenser which is made to discharge through the circuit of the motor.

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  • Author Pat Thompson
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    This is just outrageous -- I mean for this sort of thing to be occurring here and for the American military police to also be involved.

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  • Author Paul Theroux
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    Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.

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  • Author Paul Theroux
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    Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

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