#ran

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#math #science #science

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#science

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#physics #quantum #reality #science #strange

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#knowledge #reason #science #science

Science is the topography of ignorance. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#science #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

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

— James Gleick

#randomness #science #science

Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired. ↗

— Robert Strauss

#perseverance #success #success

One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#teacher

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#pain #remembrance #scars #time #time