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A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#tradition #science

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives. ↗

— Charles Wheelan

#economics #free-market #markets #science

In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science. ↗

— Mark Warner

#global-warming #politics #science #values #science

There is one power in the Universe and we can all use it. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

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Science explained people, but could not understand them. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#philosophy #religion #science #death

I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me. ↗

— Mary Roach

#humor #science #science

Upon surrendering with his rocket team to the Americans in 1945: "We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#science #space-race #wernher-von-braun #religion

It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made up of /resons/ (Lit.: 'Thing-ies') or reality fragments. Currently research indicates that each reson is itself made up of a combination of at least five 'flavours', known as 'up', 'down', 'sideways', 'sex appeal' and 'peppermint'. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#quarks #science #science

We make versions, and true versions make worlds. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#philosophy #philosophy-of-science #pragmatism #science