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I was saddened to learn of the passing of Leonard Nimoy, a fellow space traveler because he helped make the journey into the final frontier accessible to us all ... Indeed, there are strange new worlds to explore
to seek out new life and start new civilizations. It is time to boldly go where no man
or woman
has gone before. Thanks to Leonard Nimoy and his beloved Mr. Spock, the bar has been set high for us to continue humanity's quest to probe outward in the universe. ~ Buzz Aldrin
Mr Spock quotes by Buzz Aldrin
When people consider the trolley problem, here's what brain imaging reveals: In the footbridge scenario, areas involved in motor planning and emotion become active. In contrast, in the track-switch scenario, only lateral areas involved in rational thinking become active. People register emotionally when they have to push someone; when they only have to tip a lever, their brain behaves like Star Trek's Mr. Spock. ~ David Eagleman
Mr Spock quotes by David Eagleman
A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential. ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
Mr. Spock : 'I began to study human behavior from an alien perspective, thinking, humans are interesting, sad, foolish, but worthy of study. ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
You have been, and always shall be, my friend ~ Mr. Spock To Captain Kirk
Mr Spock quotes by Mr. Spock To Captain Kirk
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains. ~ David Eagleman
Mr Spock quotes by David Eagleman
BILLY: Did you ever watch Star Trek?
MACHIAVELLI: Do I look like I watch Star Trek?
BILLY: It's hard to tell who's a Trekkie.
MACHIAVELLI: Billy, I ran one of the most sophisticated secret service organizations in the world. I did not have time for Star Trek. (pause) I was more of a Star Wars fan. Why do you ask?
BILLY: Well, when Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock beamed down to a planet, usually with Dr. McCoy and sometimes with Scotty from engineering...
MACHIAVELLI: Wait a minute--what's Mr. Spock again?
BILLY: A Vulcan.
MACHIAVELLI: His rank.
BILLY: The first officer.
MACHIAVELLI: So the captain, the first officer, the ship's doctor, and sometimes the engineer all beam down to a planet. Together. The entire complement of the senior officers?
BILLY: (nods)
MACHIAVELLI: And who has command of the ship?
BILLY: (shrug) I don't know. Junior officers, I guess.
MACHIAVELLI: If they worked for me I'd have them court-martialed. That sounds like a gross dereliction of duty.
BILLY: I know. I always thought it was a little odd myself. ~ Michael Scott
Mr Spock quotes by Michael Scott
Self-control problems can be illuminated by thinking about an individual as containing two semiautonomous selves, a far-sighted "Planner" and a myopic "Doer." You can think of the Planner as speaking for your Reflective System, or the Mr. Spock lurking within you, and the Doer as heavily influenced by the Automatic System, or everyone's Homer Simpson. The Planner is trying to promote your long-term welfare but must cope with the feelings, mischief, and strong will of the Doer, who is exposed to the temptations that come with arousal. Recent research in neuroeconomics (yes, there really is such a field) has found evidence consistent with this two-system conception of self-control. Some parts of the brain get tempted, and other parts are prepared to enable us to resist temptation by assessing how we should react to the temptation.1 Sometimes the two parts of the brain can be in severe conflict - a kind of battle that one or the other is bound to lose. ~ Richard H. Thaler
Mr Spock quotes by Richard H. Thaler
Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century. ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately. ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
I blame Doctor Who. Mr Spock. The Scooby Gang: both the ones in the Mystery Machine and the ones with the stakes. I've spent my life with stories of people who don't walk away, who go back for their friends, who make that last stand. I've been brainwashed by Samwise Gamgee. ~ Andrea K. Host
Mr Spock quotes by Andrea K. Host
Insufficient facts always invite danger. ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
During my first few months of Facebooking, I discovered that my page had fostered a collective nostalgia for specific cultural icons. These started, unsurprisingly, within the realm of science fiction and fantasy. They commonly included a pointy-eared Vulcan from a certain groundbreaking 1960s television show.

Just as often, though, I found myself sharing images of a diminutive, ancient, green and disarmingly wise Jedi Master who speaks in flip-side down English. Or, if feeling more sinister, I'd post pictures of his black-cloaked, dark-sided, heavy-breathing nemesis. As an aside, I initially received from Star Trek fans considerable "push-back," or at least many raised Spock brows, when I began sharing images of Yoda and Darth Vader. To the purists, this bordered on sacrilege.. But as I like to remind fans, I was the only actor to work within both franchises, having also voiced the part of Lok Durd from the animated show Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

It was the virality of these early posts, shared by thousands of fans without any prodding from me, that got me thinking. Why do we love Spock, Yoda and Darth Vader so much? And what is it about characters like these that causes fans to click "like" and "share" so readily?

One thing was clear: Cultural icons help people define who they are today because they shaped who they were as children. We all "like" Yoda because we all loved The Empire Strikes Back, probably watched it many times, and can reci ~ George Takei
Mr Spock quotes by George Takei
People have said, "You've turned your back on pediatrics." I said, "No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics." ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced ... or does not remember experiencing. ~ Diane Duane
Mr Spock quotes by Diane Duane
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades, so that they won't take them deadly seriously, and so that if the parent has the strong feeling, "I don't like this advice," the parent won't feel compelled to follow it ... So don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special. ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Over time, researchers who look at the adolescent brain have therefore alighted on a variety of metaphors and analogies to describe their excesses. Casey prefers Star Trek: "Teenagers are more Kirk than Spock." Steinberg likens teenagers to cars with powerful accelerators and weak brakes. "And then parents are going to get into tussles with their teenagers," says Steinberg, "because they're going to try to be the brakes. ~ Jennifer Senior
Mr Spock quotes by Jennifer Senior
Not even Spock had stayed aboard for that - he found breathing vacuum for any length of time to be aesthetically unpleasant. ~ Diane Duane
Mr Spock quotes by Diane Duane
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children. ~ Gloria Steinem
Mr Spock quotes by Gloria Steinem
His touch and proximity were starting to arouse me again. Or maybe it was just the thought of Spock, I couldn't be sure. ~ Shaye Marlow
Mr Spock quotes by Shaye Marlow
There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la! ~ Gene Roddenberry
Mr Spock quotes by Gene Roddenberry
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidences in themselves - happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they have, and of all the opportunities that come their way. They will make light of any handicaps. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
I am not a Starfleet commander, or T.J. Hooker. I don't live on Starship NCC-1701, or own a phaser. And I don't know anybody named Bones, Sulu, or Spock. ~ William Shatner
Mr Spock quotes by William Shatner
In a universe where all life is in movement, where ever fact seen in perspective is totally engaging, we impose stillness on lively young bodies, distort reality to dullness, make action drudgery. Those who submit - as the majority does - are conditioned to a life lived without their human birthright: work done with the joy and creativity of love.
But what are schools for if not to make children fall so deeply in love with the world that they really want to learn about it? That is the true business of schools. And if they succeed in it, all other desirable developments follow of themselves.
In a proper school, no fact would ever be presented as a soulless one, for the simple reason that there is no such thing. Every facet of reality, discovered where it lives, startles with its wonder, beauty, meaning. ~ Marjorie Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Marjorie Spock
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Kirk: How close will we come to the nearest Klingon outpost if we continue on our present course?
Chekov: Vun parsec, sir. Close enough to smell them.
Spock: That is illogical, ensign. Odors cannot travel through the vacuum of space.
Chekov: I vas making a little joke, sir.
Spock: Extremely little, ensign. ~ David Gerrold
Mr Spock quotes by David Gerrold
Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, 'Now I'm going to read my paper' than to spend all day at the zoo crossly. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock ~ Alan Dean Foster
Mr Spock quotes by Alan Dean Foster
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Respect children because they're human beings and they deserve respect, and they'll grow up to be better people. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
Spock smiled without smiling - something McCoy had seen him do once or twice before, and damned if ~ J.M. Dillard
Mr Spock quotes by J.M. Dillard
No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts. - McCoy, The Voyage Home ~ Star Trek
Mr Spock quotes by Star Trek
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
For each of us is
A separate miracle
In a collective miracle

Brought together
For a moment
By a group of notes
And a scan of words

From the heart
Of one
Who dares
To think

That others
Might feel
As he feels ~ Leonard Nimoy
Mr Spock quotes by Leonard Nimoy
The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock. ~ Selma Blair
Mr Spock quotes by Selma Blair
If it's of any comfort, B. J. Casey and her colleagues speculate that there's an evolutionary reason why Kirk rather than Spock so often emerges the victor in the quest for control over an adolescent's mind. Human beings need incentives to leave the family nest. Leaving home is dangerous; leaving home is hard. It requires courage and learning lessons of independence. It may even require a purposeful recklessness. ~ Jennifer Senior
Mr Spock quotes by Jennifer Senior
I love to dance and I'd love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing ... I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
The BFMSS [British False Memory Syndrome Society]
The founder of the 'false memory' movement in Britain is an accused father. Two of his adult daughters say that Roger Scotford sexually abused them in childhood. He denied this and responded by launching a spectacular counter-attack, which enjoyed apparently unlimited and uncritical air time in the mass media and provoke Establishment institutions that had made no public utterance about abuse to pronounce on the accused adults' repudiation of it.
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The 'British False Memory Syndrome Society' lent a scientific aura to the allegations - the alchemy of 'falsehood' and 'memory' stirred with disease and science. The new name pathologised the accusers and drew attention away from the accused. But the so-called syndrome attacked not only the source of the stories but also the alliances between the survivors' movement and practitioners in the health, welfare, and the criminal justice system. The allies were represented no longer as credulous dupes but as malevolent agents who imported a miasma of the 'false memories' into the imaginations of distressed victims.

Roger Scotford was a former naval officer turned successful property developer living in a Georgian house overlooking an uninterrupted valley in luscious middle England. He was a rich man and was able to give up everything to devote himself to the crusade.
He says his family life was normal and that he had been a 'Dr Spock father'. Bu ~ Beatrix Campbell
Mr Spock quotes by Beatrix Campbell
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble? ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think that if you can just get McGovern instead of Humphrey, or if you can get a Democrat instead of a Republican, this will be the end of our problems. ~ Benjamin Spock
Mr Spock quotes by Benjamin Spock
The NYPD knew Sar Gedeon as a human drug lord. If they'd come in here now, they would have found him dead, sporting Spock ears, a cauterized hole in his torso, no heart, and a hoofprint branded into his chest. I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that investigation. ~ Lisa Shearin
Mr Spock quotes by Lisa Shearin
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