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The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#philosophy #science #unknowing #science

And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.” Touched by an Alien ↗

— Gini Koch

#humor #science-fiction #touched-by-an-alien #science

إن العلم للإسلام كالحياة للإنسان، ولن يجد هذا الدين مستقراً له إلا عند أصحاب المعارف الناضجة والألباب الحصيفة. ↗

— محمد الغزالي

#knowledge #science #science

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#the-dispossessed #science

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch ↗

— J.A. Huss

#fledge #flight #i-am-just-junco #j-a-huss #science-fiction

So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays. ↗

— N.H. Kleinbaum

#laziness #morose #tired #very #women

I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#strength

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#healthy #might #own #reminded #strongest

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#strength #unity #strength

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#attention #back #come #had #happen