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I cite too the ordinary fears of mortality the inspection of a fast-growing mole on the side of the nose blood in the stool a painful injury or the mournful witness of the slow death of a parent all this is given to all men as well as the starting awake in the nether hours of the night from such glutinous nightmare that on'e self name relationships nationality place in life all data of specificity wipe out amnesiatically asiatically you don't even know the idea human it is such a low hour of the night and he shares it with all of us. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#life #stream-of-consciousness #death

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ↗

— Edwin Powell Hubble

#around #calls #equipped #explores #five

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#intelligent-design #religion #religion-and-science #science #science-and-religion

I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’t be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

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A little science estranges a man from God. A lot of science brings him back. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora. ↗

— David Brin

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Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#reason #science #science

What goes up must come down. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#newton #science #science

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. ↗

— Douglas R. Hofstadter

#order #science #science