#fact

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #math #the-fault-in-our-stars #true #math

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality. ↗

— Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

#perspective #reality #truth #respect

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#science #science

Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#factory-farming #meat #science #veganism #vegetarianism

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#fairy-tales #magic #reality #science #science

Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. ↗

— Jules Verne

#facts #knowledge #science #scientific-method #truth

The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. ↗

— National Academy of Sciences

#facts #opinions #science #theories #nature

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#satisfaction #serenity #happy

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#fave #true-to-fact #awesome

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. ↗

— John Green

#self-determination #hurt