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Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today. ↗

— Ramez Naam

#science #nature

The thinnest thing in the world is the border between good and evil... my next The Opposite Of Magic. ↗

— Ivan Stoikov

#books #evil #fantasy #good #magic

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz ↗

— William L.K.

#kindle-books #science-fiction #short-story #worth-reading #science

There will be no distance, if you can beat the time ↗

— Isybel Harto

#science #technology #science

Space isnt remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go striaght up. ↗

— Sir Fred Hoyle

#space #travel #science

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#ignorance #random #science #science

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#falsification #honesty #integrity #lies #oxford

On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drinnk between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humour #science-fiction #science

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humour #physics #science #space #science

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science-fiction #science