#sci

You are so... 11:59 ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#fantasy #horror #midnighters #science-fiction #science

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#science #science

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science-fiction #science

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#best #family #father #had #interest

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#discipline #i #i love #love #myself

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone. ↗

— John Oldham

#alone #conscience #god #lord #myself

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#always #consciousness #fascinating #get #idea

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#drive #nuts #stuff #you

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#i #learned #myself #things #want