#sci

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#big #big cities #chains #cities #lead

Since the war I have stressed altogether five main objectives. The true union of Europe; the union of government with science; the power of government to act rapidly and decisively, subject to parliamentary control; the effective leadership of government to solve the economic problem by use of the wage-price mechanism at the two key-points of the modern industrial world; and a clearly defined purpose for a movement of humanity to ever higher forms. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#labor #wages #leadership

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#couple #every #hundred #members #probably

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#debt #earn #fellow #highest #highest reward

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue. ↗

— Frances Wright

#ever #guides #sciences #surest #virtue

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#analysis #answer #barbarian #behaviour #clear

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#certain #combination #discipline #i #way

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#consciously #even #evil #i #journalism

Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates. ↗

— John Opie

#creates #discovers #godlike #more #science