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The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#logic #rational #science #science

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

#communal-memory #humanity #humanity-and-society #humans #libraries

And like a good neighbor, Alpha Centauri is there.” Touched by an Alien ↗

— Gini Koch

#humor #science-fiction #touched-by-an-alien #science

إن العلم للإسلام كالحياة للإنسان، ولن يجد هذا الدين مستقراً له إلا عند أصحاب المعارف الناضجة والألباب الحصيفة. ↗

— محمد الغزالي

#knowledge #science #science

It's easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it's lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#smile

You're something between a dream and a miracle. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#dreams

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch ↗

— J.A. Huss

#fledge #flight #i-am-just-junco #j-a-huss #science-fiction

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#dreams

My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#science

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. ↗

— David Mitchell

#dreams