#er

I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #fiction #god #horror

Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#physics #science #space #universe #science

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#science #science

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#mystery #science #science

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#mysterious #question #science #science

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand. ↗

— Jody Lynn Nye

#simplicity #wonder #science

When it happens, this is what happens: I shoot myself. Not, you know, my self self. I shoot my future self. He steps out of a time machine, introduces himself as Charles Yu. What else am I supposed to do? I kill him. I kill my own future. ↗

— Charles Yu

#kill-the-future #murder-suicide #science

We're not responsible, he thought. This planet is a temporary affair. It's whizzing with all kinds of other ones, a whole range of planetary stuff, toward a star in the Milky Way. On that kind of a planet we're not responsible, he thought. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#science #universe #science

Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of 'what is.' Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of 'how to' . ↗

— Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman

#mathematics #sicp #science

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun. ↗

— Brian Swimme

#science #universe #science