Subdiscipline Quotes

#1. The term "exobiology," sometimes interchanged with astrobiology, is actually much more specific - it covers the search for life beyond Earth and the effects of extraterrestrial environments on living things. Today, it is considered a subdiscipline within astrobiology.

Cris Putnam

#2. It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often fail to behave with the rationality expected of them.

Kaushik Basu

#3. What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. Her blond hair hung loose, cascading around her shoulders, and stopping over her breasts. She turned toward him, violet eyes meeting his gaze. For a moment, he lost all coherent thought.

Lia Davis

#5. Easy luck always turns bad. You want the kind of luck you have to earn.

Dean Koontz

#6. My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

Chris Colfer

#7. We spread our sleeping bags on the snow and crawled inside. The vantage point was dizzying. It was impossible to tell whether the comet was above us or we were above the comet; we were all falling through space, missing the stars by inches.

Anne Fadiman

#8. Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

Dan Castellaneta

#9. Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose rather than in the hands of one gatekeeper.

Jonathan Zittrain

#11. And then I stopped. I cut the whiny voice off midsentence. Because I was sick of it, and it wasn't doing me any good, and anyway, shouldn't I have some say over the endless thoughts running through my head

John Green

#12. Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

Jonathan Kozol

#13. I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

John Updike

#14. We judge ourselves mostly by our intentions, but others judge us mostly by our actions.

Eric Harvey

#15. DON'T DIE FOR ANYONE!!! You should rather live to love someone than die to prove it.

Olaotan Fawehinmi