#hum

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humour #physics #science #space #science

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science-fiction #science

That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either. ↗

— Janet Kagan

#opening-lines #science-fiction #science

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#humor

Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing. ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#love #marriage #observational-comedy #humor

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #country #humanity #illuminates #knowledge

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#science #space #science

Sólo hay 10 tipos de personas en el mundo: las que entienden el sistema binario y las que no. ↗

— Sergio de Regules

#science #science

It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment. ↗

— Ammaar Shaukat Reshi

#computers #humanity #technology #science

...it seems to me that sometimes-or perhaps I might venture most of the time-occurrences have no cause at all. New stars appear and old ones vanish. Short hats become popular again. Things are as they are and do as they please for absolutely no reason at all. ↗

— Galen Beckett

#science #science