It was that he had questions, concerns, misinformation buried deep down, for which he needed an expert like myself to answer without scorn and without judgment. Nevertheless, I went back into the lab and I did what I do, making vaccines.
that of stories from around the world. Uh archaeologists pour scorn on Plato's story of Atlantis. Uh but Atlantis is another of those stories that remembers a global flood that wiped out a former era of existence leaving only a few survivors. And the archaeological
"Did you get in?" Alien asked after he had taken his seat and shut the door. Richard responded scornfully, "there is no way," he reported. "What do you " She said.
in which I served a recent sentence to traffic school. As reading was a scorned pastime amongst my fellow inmates, I laid easy claim to the volume, a mental sop for a mind numbed by the day's prattle. I was soon swept up by this tale of an intrepid entrepreneur's rise to the heights of the glamorous but cutthroat world
So with respect to the Tall Boxes, the origin of that name was that Frank Lloyd Wright, 100 years ago, was describing skyscrapers with what he called "tall boxes." And he was saying it with some scorn . And it's interesting, with that first drink, most people would think of the brandy Old Fashioned
And it's interesting, with that first drink, most people would think of the brandy Old Fashioned with the garbage in it with some scorn . So Frank Lloyd Wright actually ended up designing some skyscrapers.
energy um how much time do we have well I'm almost out of time well I'll end we laugh with sympathy and without scorn
himself to be ashamed only of the things worth being ashamed of. So he would practice doing things that would earn him the scorn , superficial scorn , of others. And the form that that can take can be very, very simple.
They're just wanting to help or be there or be present, or just energetically, that field is so amazing. And I don't think of her with a kind of scorn , like, eh, you couldn't do anything else with your life, so you became loving, you know? It's like, it's a very different quality of appreciation that I think we actually do have when we think maybe
And it's a tool in science fiction that you really don't get to use in another genre or any other style. It's what science fiction does best and it's what I love. So despite the fact that science fiction is sort of scorned , this is the place where I get to play with the tools that give me an opportunity to talk about the world in some really interesting ways. The--the--the thing I'm sort of looking for is that opportunity to help people see what
So the present school generation, they're the ones who will face the results of the decisions that we're making now based on our understanding or lack of understanding or scorn for science. That's a strong reason for the engagement of school people with these big issues of science and history.
civilization. So, so archaeologists are having to confront a reversal of their model at the moment. And I think there's at work. Where powers that are scorned in our society today, such as telepathy
So happiness was the easy one. It's a very pessimistic, scornful kind of micro expression.
archaeologists saying that. This is the memory banks of our species. This is the record the only record we have of a period before 6,000 years ago. And we shouldn't despise it and scorn it as primitive superstition. We should say what can we find in here that we can coordinate with scientific facts that we're aware of. Let's see if there's something to this rather than just
A more benign impetus to return to the essay came from Henry. In an email to me, he gently suggested that I lose the tone of prophetic scorn .
If you put your money in, you'll have my gratitude. And if you don't put your money in, then you'll have my scorn and my contempt. So these different kinds of social emotions enable us to be cooperative, to get in that state where people are not just thinking about me
laughter]and things like that. And it's--it's awesome. It's a--a lotta--a lot of fun. And there's a tag BP Cares, which is a lot of fun too. The thing is, is we poke fun at them and we scorn them. But--but basically BP is just a dog that we sent out to fetch. And now we're blaming it because it didn't get the bone. I mean basically you send out a dog, you say, "Go fetch that. Go get that bone." And it comes back and you say, "Oh good dog, here's a treat."
I was so angry that I decided I better write an essay. I began with a jeremiad against the National Audubon Society, broadened it into a scornful denunciation of the environmental movement generally, and then started waking up in the night in a panic of remorse and doubt.
And that's what we do with BP. We say, "Go get us some oil. Come back, we'll give you some money." And, so they were just doing what we asked them to do. The fact that they're failures at it, well you know that's--that's when we start scorning them. But we would have been perfectly happy tossing them little treats as long as they kept doing it anyway. We were trying to send them out.
really tarred and feathered and all that. There were never village Agnostics. I tried to trace that. I thought maybe, it was actually almost an institutional phenomenon of the village Atheists, but nevertheless, Agnostics were looked on with less scorn than Atheists, and they were a little more accepted. But people of strong faith, and this is in our own American literature, people of strong faith looked down upon them and still look down upon them. Yes.