#om

The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#awe #galaxy #science #science

When I tell people I'm planning on majoring in psychology, I usually get one of three responses: A) Oh! Are you analyzing me right now? B) Psychology . . . hardly an exact science, is it? or C) So what's wrong with you? ↗

— Alicia Thompson

#psych-major-syndrome #science

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#chi-ro-jin #head #invisibility #invisible #quotable

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense. ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#events #heart #science

..the happy hum of humanity. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#social-commentary #science

Wesley Rush no persigue a las chicas, pero te estoy persiguiendo a ti”. Weasley Rush ↗

— Kody Keplinger

#young-adult-romance #design

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. ↗

— James Gleick

#randomness #science #science

To those of you who find fault with complainers, I say to you would you enjoy living in a home that had its one and only bathroom up on its rooftop? In a like token those that are not qualified, as well as are incompetent, should not be designing computer applications that have their bathrooms in the wrong place. ↗

— Leonard Rattini

#design

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. ↗

— Charles Wheelan

#economics #free-market #markets #science

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science. ↗

— Mark Warner

#global-warming #politics #science #values #science