#owl

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point. ↗

— Kiana Davenport

#life

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#entertaining #fun #knowledge #passion #peace

Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness! ↗

— Monique Rockliffe

#knowledge-wisdom #writing-craft #life

They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind. ↗

— Amelia Gray

#life #life

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#faust #immortality #knowledge #life

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. ↗

— Donna Haraway

#objectivity #partial-perspective #rhetoric #science-studies #situated-knowledge

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know. ↗

— Ted Chiang

#knowledge #science-fiction #sf #writing #nature

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

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #country #humanity #illuminates #knowledge

Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing). ↗

— Bill Gaede

#extinction #gaede #hypothesis #knowledge #prediction

Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#mathematics #sciences #science