#sci

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#amongst #conclusions #convince #digging #doing

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#conscious #creatures #develop #here #need

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#avenge #consciences #grow #human #misery

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#class #class consciousness #consciousness #destinies #general

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#cancer #clean #cut #german #germany

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#body #chance #create #crowd #given

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment. ↗

— Gary Ross

#another #controlling #environment #fascism #fears

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment. ↗

— Bruno Rossi

#inborn #into #lifelong #science #tendency

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man. ↗

— Bruno Rossi

#discovery #experiment #far #feeling #goes

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#backs #easy #exception #him #honors