#sci

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality. ↗

— Anna Torv

#fringe #genre #go #immersed #once

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#another #causes #compared #cures #happiness

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#between #consciousness #contemporary #contemporary world #crying

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#annually #audit #could #dare #easy

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#dwell #experience #grows #whatever #you

When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#bowie #created #david #david bowie #entire

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#company #crowd #digestion #even #exercised

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#capricious #demands #discipline #easy #enough

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#between #commonality #develop #profoundly #science

I was always attracted to science fiction movies. ↗

— Tina Turner

#attracted #fiction #i #movies #science