Steve Allen Quotes (42 Quotes)

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

Unfortunately, many sex assaults occur because there's a breakdown in communication where people start consuming alcohol. You get two people together in a situation like that and an extremely dangerous outcome can occur.

This is an important step in understanding how such jets can be launched from magnetized disks of gas near the event horizon of a black hole. Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Is it larger than a bread box.

What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll just plant them in a random fashion. That may result in a tree not surviving more than a decade.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

We want to follow Bruce on his path. Some of this could be disappointments we're going to make it real.

He had to have been a lonely guy. He gave up his whole life for his career, ... When he was on the road all of the time, he didn't have any family or friends around, so that, for him, became vodka.

SSME positions NC State as a worldwide leader in developing the skills that companies like IBM are looking for in their employees. Our students will now have a chance to be part of this emerging field, opening the door for them to pursue a wide variety of

I don't know that much about them other than the fact that they gave us a lot of trouble last year over at their yard.

It's our belief the 8 year old was isolated in a tent with him during part of that time.

Other than chauffeuring, (our duties are) helping them find places to eat and helping them find necessities, ... And we try to find some things for them that are entertaining and reflective of America, like the sites around Seattle.

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth, the object being eventually to close it on something solid. But one should never close either mind or mouth until the general circumstances of the moment make it reasonable to do so.

As a Birmingham City fan I get at least six letters each close-season asking me to renew my season ticket, often with some ludicrous claim that the club's signing a 10m player (cleverly worded as 'I have committed 10m to just one player' - this included a 3m transfer fee and the player's wages over his four-year contract). At a time when I'm desperately saving to try and climb that first rung of the housing ladder, I have drone-like chalked up another 550 on my credit card to see 19 games this season, many of which will end without us scoring a single goal and probably only three of them at 3pm on a Saturday. How stupid do I feel

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

Radio is the theater of the mind television is the theater of the mindless

Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.

If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black hole engines you could get about a billion miles per gallon of gas. In anyone's book that would be pretty green.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

These black holes are very efficient, but it also takes a very long time to refuel them.

My mother always said he was a very nice, endearing man, unlike his portrayals in the movies (as a child-hating, scheming, mean-spirited person), which I think was a product of him trying to get a laugh, ... Dad always described him as tremendously alert and ambitious. He had a hard shell, but underneath he had some softness.

Based on the facts we have, police reports here give us cause for concern that there's other victims out there, so we put him on the sex registry.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

The universe really is accelerating. By using Chandra to study galaxy clusters, we have obtained strong new evidence for dark energy and clear and direct confirmation that the expansion of our universe is accelerating.

We expect that things are going to slow down, and that slowdown is going to be evident in two ways. One, we are going to see lower sales volume, fewer houses being sold. Secondly, we think the rate of price inflation will be declining fairly dramatically.

Without laughter, life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter that societies highly reward those who make a living by inducing laughter in others.

AFL ratings would be expected to go up, but they will only get the big increases if the Swans continue to draw an audience in Sydney.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

I'm really happy with the play of Ian and Tommy. Tommy played really well in the cage for us today.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.

He has a wonderful upside because of his size and his athletic ability. He's a basketball player. He's an athlete. He's just been a big part of our progress. He took on a leadership role.

Men will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that they have no sense of humor.

It is going to be fearfully close. On Monday night the gap between Seven and Nine was just 8000 people.

We think that will give the students a big edge over people that are just computer science or engineering.

Just as with cars, it's critical to know the fuel efficiency of black holes. Without this information, we cannot figure out what is going on under the hood, so to speak, or what the engine can do.

Once gas comes within a distance about a million times larger than the event horizon of the black hole, it becomes gravitationally captured. At this point the gas becomes fuel for the black hole engine.

What this does is give us a step toward understanding why the galaxies in the universe look the way they do.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.