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If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing. ↗

— J. Richard Gott III

#science #time-travel #science

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time. ↗

— Michio Kaku

#physics #science #spacetime #science

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#good-will #patience #science

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium. ↗

— Marie Curie

#romance #science #spark #science

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#apocalypse #cassie #choices #fiction #horror

Do a little more than you're paid to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family & friends. ↗

— Art Linkletter

#art

Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#einstein #french #humour #infini #philosophie

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#physics #science #universe #science

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible. ↗

— Louis Althusser

#ideology #philosophy #science #war #science

In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors weak and disfigured. French soldiers spread the disease across much of Europe, and then it moved into Africa and Asia. Many called it the French disease. The French called it the Italian disease. Arabs called it the Christian disease. Today, it is called syphilis. ↗

— Carl Zimmer

#science #syphyllis #science