#iv

Is this how humanity waves good-bye? Hell no. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #fiction #horror #humanity

Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan. ↗

— Adam Baker

#horror #science-fiction #survival #thriller #zombie

Implicitly or explicitly, the rhythms of our lives, the movement from season to season, the patterns of the winds, and the pulse of the tides all depend on the apparent motions of the sun and moon and stars. Yet most modern urban dwellers are only dimly aware of the night sky ― the stars and their myriad forms. They are only slightly more aware of the phases of the moon or the motions of the sun. Even those who take the daily horoscope seriously generally have a very poor notion of its connection with astronomical phenomena. ↗

— Ray A. Williamson

#native-american #science #science

We're living in science fiction, but we don't realize it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#realize #science-fiction #science

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#hit #ivy #josephine #science-book #science

Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be. ↗

— George Carlin

#need

All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear! ("The Jelly-Fish") ↗

— David H. Keller

#fear #relativity #scale #science #size

It is as it is. Betren son of Bromwell Defender of Delmarath ↗

— Cynthia Willerth

#drama #science-fiction #speculative-fiction #science

The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#civilization #science #western #science

Horned humans are not unknown to medical science as there is a rare skin disease, which goes by the name of ‘Cornu Cutaneum’, a cutaneous growth, which resembles a horn and grows from the scalp. ↗

— Carole Carlton

#carole-carlton #cornu-cutaneum #horned-humans #horns-from-the-scalp #imbolc