#sci

I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#first #ground #i #ideas #important

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#after #believe #better #children #doing

We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other species with which we share this planet. Our cells are composed of atoms and dust particles from distant galaxies, and from the billions of living organisms that inhabited this planet before us. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#meaning-of-life #science #why-we-are-here #beauty

Intelligence is not a science. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#science

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159) ↗

— Michael Shermer

#darwinism #evolution #intelligent-design #science #spirituality

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conscious #divine #faults #greatest #man

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#inscrutable #magical #miracle #more #our

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#government #higher #law #than

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere. ↗

— Rudolf Carnap

#everywhere #science #surface