Then you have to convince your colleagues.

And you have to, first you have to convince yourself.

And that's what I'd like to convince you of today.

And, you know, we thought well, we tried to convince them.

So, I hope to convince you that complex doesn't always equal complicated.

Let me try to convince you of that in a few seconds.

And you see agenda this is marketing, this is politics trying to convince you to have one model versus another, trying to convince you to ignore a model and trust your feelings, marginalizing people with models you don't like.

And we try to convince ourselves we really try to convince ourselves they're wrong.

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists.

Do the smiles convince?

I can't convince them.

And, secondly, to convince you that every home really ought to have a scanning electron microscope.

But I'll try to convince you that spectroscopy is actually something which can change this world.

Tony said that it's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

It is hard to convince John.

I showed you the shots, I proved it in the PowerPoint, and I think I will convince you also by culture.

If you can convince me we can do all that, then, yes, I would take the two percent.

Fortunately, we've been able to convince Congress.

I think the WorldWide Telescope will convince you that we may be tiny, but we are truly, wonderfully significant.

And I want to convince you the brain does make predictions of the sensory feedback it's going to get.

And so if you wanted to convince them to do something they don't want to do, it's very difficult.

I could not convince him of his mistake.

I tried to convince Tom to come home.

For now, let me try to convince you of the plausibility of this hypothesis, that it's actually worth taking seriously.

So I want to try and convince you in about 15 minutes that that's a ridiculous and ludicrous thing to do.

Try to convince donors to give you a couple thousand dollars to glue a satellite tag on the back of penguins.

And I'm going to spend the next few minutes trying to convince you that physics can teach us something about marketing.

The first is to tell you something about pollen, I hope, and to convince you that it's more than just something that gets up your nose.

You've got to be able to convince us that you either have developed a team that has all those factors in it, or else you can.

She was asked to convince him to paint the house.

And it won't be very long before you won't be able to convince kids that we didn't always have computers in our homes.

Can you convince them to work with a new toolbox, so that they can build a structure that will be important to me?

We weren't sure at all. And we managed to convince him.

That's when we convince ourselves that a lie is the truth.

But the good news is I don't think I need to stand here and convince you to care I'm not even going to try.

I don't doubt that that plays some role, but what I want to convince you of today is that there's something else going on.

Now, here's the experiment we did, and I would hope this is going to convince you that Yeah, right! was not the right response.

They target poor families and convince the parents to send their children.

We have to convince our audience that what we're talking about matters.

I'd like to convince you that the universe has a soundtrack and that soundtrack is played on space itself, because space can wobble like a drum.

And in convincing yourself that this metaphor is true, there are lots of similarities between genetic programs and computer programs that could help to convince you.

Tell them this story. Convince them to tell the story to another two persons.

But what if we could convince them to build a solar cell for us?

And then you have to convince the whole world that you have actually detected something like this in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet host star somewhere in 100 parsec away from here.

And finally, I want to convince you that it is possible to step outside of that feeling and that if you can do so, it is the single greatest moral, intellectual and creative leap you can make.