#kin

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works. ↗

— Jim Al-Khalili

#science #science

They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#religion #science #religion

They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started using their mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#kisses #talking #kate

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. ↗

— Dava Sobel

#invention #inventors #science #science

Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression? ↗

— G.A. Aiken

#put-downs #thinking #insult

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy. ↗

— William Faulkner

#war #poor

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little. ↗

— Stephen King

#poor

Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-rights #kindness-to-animals #vegan #civilization

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly. ↗

— Stephen King

#king #on-writing #stephen-king #information

In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#evil