Plait Quotes

#1. Let me have two locks of your hair, and help my mother plait them into a bow-string for me. "Does anything depend on it asked Hallgerd". "My life depends on it replied Gunnar.

Anonymous

#2. I like to see you in a sari, with your long hair dressed in a single plait. Don't forget that I married a girl from India because I like my wife to be conservative and feminine.

K. Kanagalatha

#3. And yet, every day, Brian gathers his sister's long hair into a beautiful plait, and just the sound of his voice is enough to calm her when she is uncomfortable and frightened. I think that tells me his real story.

Mary Ann Rivers

#4. You meant evil against me," Joseph told his brothers, using a Hebrew verb that traces its meaning to "weave" or "plait." "You wove evil," he was saying, "but God rewove it together for good."

God, the Master Weaver.

Max Lucado

#5. His hands would plait the priest's guts, if he had no rope, to strangle kings.

Denis Diderot

#6. You can experience the thrill of discovery, the incredible, visceral feeling of doing something no one has ever done before, see things no one has ever seen before, know something no one has ever known before ... Welcome to science, you're gonna like it here.

Phil Plait

#7. A few photographers make a killing; the rest can't make a living.

Bill Jay

#8. Some people try to tell me that science will never answer the big questions we have in life. To them I say: baloney! The real problem is your questions aren't big enough.

Phil Plait

#9. They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Philip Plait

#10. The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

Phil Plait

#11. Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places ... and that's just at Saturn.

Phil Plait

#12. If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

Philip Plait

#13. Just like people, stars can be important without being terribly bright.

Phil Plait

#14. However, science isn't just about showing when you're right; it's also about showing when you're wrong.

Phil Plait

#15. There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God's medicine is the answer to every need.

Gloria Copeland

#16. Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

Philip Plait

#17. I am stable when my private life is a success.

Don Johnson

#18. When everyone sees good, then bad exists.

Laozi

#19. It's dead obvious that creationism isn't science, or even bad science. It's nonsense. But I've long stated it's also bad religion, because it doesn't just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.

Phil Plait

#20. Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Phil Plait

#21. Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

Phil Plait

#22. I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

Vanessa Hudgens

#23. I still hear some people say that science takes the wonder out of life. Those people are utterly wrong. Science takes us to the wonder

Phil Plait

#24. Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.

Phil Plait

#25. The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote.

Phil Plait

#26. Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

Phil Plait

#27. Not everything that's cool is science, but everything in science is cool.

Phil Plait

#28. If you took every nuclear weapon ever built at the height of the Cold War, lumped them together and blew them up at the same time, that would be one one-millionth of the energy released at that moment.

Phil Plait

#29. When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

Phil Plait

#30. If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.

Philip Plait

#31. I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Philip Plait

#32. If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.

Nicole Kidman

#33. I told Pattie that last night I dreamt that we had a press conference and nobody showed up. I am overwhelmed that so many of you are here.

LaVell Edwards

#34. How do you convince someone they're not thinking clearly, when they're not thinking clearly? What we're actually saying is no magic, no afterlife, no higher moral authoritative father-figure, no security, and no happy ever after. This is a tough sell.

Phil Plait

#35. Science asymptotically approaches reality.

Philip Plait