#sci

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#sci-fi #vorkosigan #inspirational

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#edison #inspirational #possibilities #science #inspirational

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#inspiration #inspirational #knowledge #learning #philosophy

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#inspirational #science #freedom

Gwynned lies two days westwards; still further south, the weregeld calls. Mayhap with All-Father Woden's favour, my deeds may yet inspire the skalds. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#fish #horse #humor #inspirational #science

Lägg dig senast vi tio-tiden , då den kosmiska strålningen före midnatt verkar förnyande på hela ditt nervsystem. ↗

— Birgit Sjöberg

#inspirational #science #inspirational

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#inspirational #philosophy #science #inspirational

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? ↗

— G.F. Smith

#inspiration #literary #metaphysics #paranormal #religion

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#perfection #perseverance #personal-growth #self-discipline #success

They didn't put two and two together. They didn't even know what they knew. I don't know what's the matter with people, they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#science-humor #inspirational