Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

Andrew H. Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll

I think you can say that life is a system in which proteins and nucleic acids interact in ways that allow the structure to grow and reproduce. It's that growth and reproduction, the ability to make more of yourself, that's important.

Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.

Brian Eno
Brian Eno

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.

Catherine Drinker Bowen
Catherine Drinker Bowen

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.

Charlie Trotter
Charlie Trotter

In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food become the skilled artists of their time.

Damian Loeb
Damian Loeb

'Star Wars' came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.

Damian Loeb
Damian Loeb

Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.