According to biographer Ray Spangenburg, these early years as Sagan tried to understand the mysteries of the planets, became a " driving force in his life, a continual spark to his intellect, and a quest that would never be forgotten.

* According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, by 2018 “ there will be a drug that lets you eat whatever you want without gaining weight .”

According to a Natalie Wood biography, she almost did not get the role of Judy because Nicholas Ray thought that she didn't seem fit for the role of the wild teen character.

According to biographer Kelley, the 1964 Time appearance came because " Barry Farrell, who wrote the cover story, wanted to write about a jazz musician and almost by default Monk was chosen, because they thought Ray Charles and Miles Davis were too controversial.

According to the booklets accompanying some of the DVDs of Filmation's shows, legendary composer Ray Ellis ( who was assisted by his son Marc Ellis ) had produced the background music for most Filmation series under the pseudonyms " Yvette Blais and Jeff Michael.

According to Ray Kassar, about 3. 5 million of the 4 million produced were sent back to the company.

According to Mike Evans in his book Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul ( 2007 ), the singer developed his hit " What'd I Say " as part of an after-show jam in Brownsville in December 1958.

According to Ray Manzarek, the band was told, " Mr. Sullivan liked you boys.

According to Ray Robinson Jr., when Sugar Ray's mother died, Sugar Ray could not attend his mother's funeral because Millie was drugging and controlling him.

According to Nat Fleischer in The Ring, December 1951, page 3, this was an extremely dirty fight, with " wrestling, heeling, eye gouging, tripping, thumbing-in fact every dirty trick known to the old timers .." Referee Ray Miller " let the bout get out of hand ..." " The pattern of the ' contest ' never varied.

" According to Burke, his mother introduced him to Jimmy Reed and Ray Charles as well as that era's king of smooth, Billy Eckstein.

" According to Burke, Atlantic " had just released Ray Charles from the label ; he hadn ’ t been gone a week.

According to the Dallas Times Herald, it took Vaughan an hour just to walk from the bar to the table across the room where his parents were sitting ; the article also said, " Stevie Ray found his father, a retired asbestos worker who hadn't taken a plane ride since the Korean War, and hugged him until they both cried.

According to Jowers, James Earl Ray was a scapegoat, and not involved in the assassination.

According to Ray Anderson, who instituted a form of FCA / TCA at Interface Carpet, used it to rule out decisions that increase Ecological Footprint and focus the company more clearly on a sustainable marketing strategy.

Note on spelling: According to the Iranian Chamber Society, the correct spelling of the city in both English and Persian is " Ray ," ( with an " a " vowel sound ) though variations in spelling also exist.

According to Boston University film scholar Ray Carney, Rowlands sought to suppress an early version of Cassavetes ' first film, Shadows, that Carney says he rediscovered after decades of searching.

According to Ray Bradbury, Corwin was responsible for the eventual publication of Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.

According to Thomas S. Ray and others, this may allow for more " open-ended " evolution, in which the dynamics of the feedback between evolutionary and ecological processes can itself change over time ( see evolvability ) although this claim has not been realized – like other digital evolution systems, it eventually comes to a point where novelty ceases to be created, and the system at large begins either looping or ceases to ' evolve '.

According to keyboardist Ray Manzarek, some of the songs had been rehearsed with Morrison before he left for Paris.

According to St. John ’ s University's psychology professor Ray DiGiuseppe " Because anger has been viewed as a secondary emotion by most clinical theories, no anger disorders are included in the present version of DSM-IV-TR, and this is unlikely to change in DSM-V ." Despite this, anger experts like Eva L. Feindler speak of " anger-related disorders ".

According to The Carpenters: The Untold Story by Ray Coleman, manager Sherwin Bash fired Sedaka at the request of Richard Carpenter, allegedly because Sedaka was becoming more popular than the Carpenters.

" According to Ray, " you can build an entire character around that notion, and we did ".

According to C. Howard Wheeldon, who was present at the meeting where Powell gave the speech, " it is fascinating to note what little hostility emerged from the audience.

" According to the Ballarat Times, at " about eleven o ' clock the ' Southern Cross ' was hoisted, and its maiden appearance was a fascinating object to behold.

According to the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, " Every three or four minutes some fascinating young female fell into the fountain and had to be rescued by a chivalrous swain.

" According to Publishers Weekly, in Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Mary Hoffman and Jane Ray collect " snippets of factual information, myths, stories, poems and musings in this fascinating volume about the four classic elements.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, " He was slow in making up his mind, and there was a want of resolute firmness … but … he had a good deal of the dogged determination that belongs to the Scotch character, and a large capacity for patient endurance … He was very friendly … but he lacked that magnetic power which great leaders have of fascinating their comrades, and of binding them as it were by hooks of steel.

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

According to Stephen Dorril, at about the same time, Special Branch officers recruited an informant within CND, Stanley Bonnett, on the instructions of MI5.

According to this argument, made by scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, it would be improbable for life not to exist somewhere other than Earth.

According to the 11th century Byzantine historian Georgios Kedrenos an uncial manuscript of Matthew's Gospel, believed to be that found by Anthemios, was then still preserved in the Chapel of St Stephen in the imperial palace.

According to the Stephen Fried book Thing of Beauty, she locked herself in a bathroom for hours, shooting heroin.

According to principal architect Stephen P. Morse, this was a result of a more software centric approach than in the design of earlier Intel processors ( the designers had experience working with compiler implementations ).

According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

According to Stephen Sondheim, " What few people understand is that Oscar's big contribution to the theater was as a theoretician, as a Peter Brook, as an innovator.

According to the historian Horace Mann, Stephen was an impotent observer, and that the responsible agent was in reality the Chartularius, Gratiosus.

According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again.

According to Stephen Metcalf, Nozick expresses serious misgivings about capitalist libertarianism, going so far as to reject much of the foundations of the theory on the grounds that personal freedom can sometimes only be fully actualized via a collectivist politics and that wealth is at times justly redistributed via taxation to protect the freedom of the many from the potential tyranny of an overly selfish and powerful few.

According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic cross and a letter of blessing officially recognizing Stephen as the Christian king of Hungary.

According to Hartwick's legend, during his coronation Stephen dedicated the crown to the Holy Virgin, thereby sealing a contract between God and the crown ( which is therefore considered a " holy " crown ).

According to Stephen Spratt, " the revenues raised could be used for ... international development objectives ... such as meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

According to F. J. E. Raby, " There is little reason to doubt that Stephen Langton ... was the author " of the famous sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus.

According to Stephen Skinner, the study of sacred geometry has its roots in the study of nature, and the mathematical principles at work therein.

According to Stephen Holden, a writer in The New York Times, " Many of Hart's ballad lyrics conveyed a heart-stopping sadness that reflected his conviction that he was physically too unattractive to be lovable.

According to a study conducted by Robert J. Sampson and Stephen W. Raudenbush, the premise that the broken windows theory operates on — that social disorder and crime are connected as part of a causal chain — is faulty.

According to William of Newburgh, King Stephen was " grieved beyond measure by the death of the son who he hoped would succeed him ; he pursued warlike preparations less vigorously, and listened more patiently than usual to the voices of those urging peace.