#sci

Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that. ↗

— Michael Specter

#medicine #science #food

This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#food #knowledge #food

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. ↗

— Val Kilmer

#catch #clauses #comedy #community #consciousness

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#discipline #friendship #him #intimate #jesus

I count myself fortunate to be able to contribute to this work; and the great interest which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has shown in my work and the recognition that it has paid to my past successes, convince me that I am not on the wrong track. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#academy #am #contribute #convince #count

Half of all broccoli grown commercially in America today is a single variety- Marathon- notable for it's high yield. The overwhelming majority of the chickens raised for meat in America are the same hybrid, the Cornish cross; more than 99 percent of turkeys are the Broad-Breasted Whites. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#food

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know. ↗

— Kerry King

#anything #avoid #bag #bags #cabin

I was particularly good at math and science. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#i #math #particularly #science

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#control #eyes #gives #i #i love

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#conscious #control #disruption #effect #nature