#sci

That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. ↗

— James Gunn

#approach #build #certainly #child #content

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#both #conscious #ear #head #how

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#both #connotation #fascinating #gained #how

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#between #curiosity #extraordinary #human #human world

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#conscientious #ever #exercise #i #keeping

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. ↗

— Will Durant

#gives #knowledge #only #philosophy #science

If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. ... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism. ↗

— Fritjof Capra

#experience

I would have ten children. I think they are the most fascinating, and it's the only thing in the world that hasn't been overrated. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#children #fascinating #hasn #i #i think

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#assembly #before #distinguished #especially #followed

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#anything #between #familiar #fascinated #feels