Begin challenging your own assumptions.
ALAN ALDABegin challenging your own assumptions.
ALAN ALDAWhen I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
ALAN ALDABeing mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
ALAN ALDAFor humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
ALAN ALDAIt isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDAKids are natural scientists.
ALAN ALDADuring the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
ALAN ALDAFor me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
ALAN ALDAI find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
ALAN ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAAlmost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
ALAN ALDAThe one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
ALAN ALDAWe’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
ALAN ALDAYour assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
ALAN ALDAWhen people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
ALAN ALDAIn 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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