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... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though always with the maximum possible comprehension suited to the purpose. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #science #science

The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#nature

She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn’t like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. “You aren’t the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren’t the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core. But I will tell you what I’ve told the others. This is your last chance. You screw up with me and you get shipped up river. I don’t offer second chances—I offer last chances.” Nope, he didn’t like it. She saw the hand not holding the bottle of beer curl into a fist. Sin and Del, from Sunscapes Trilogy, Book 1: Last Chance ↗

— Michelle O'Leary

#futuristic-romance #michelle-oleary #romance #romantic-adventure #science-fiction

He gazed deeply into my eyes. Placing his hand to my cheek, he caressed my skin with his fingertips. “Ariel, you have a strength that cannot be hindered by anything. A strength that I admire greatly.” - Luca ↗

— Victoria H. Smith

#new-adult #science-fiction-romance #upper-ya #science

Saul's vitals were not human, but familiar: he never told me he was from another world: I never told him I was from his future. ↗

— Joe Haldeman

#sestina #spoiler #science

Do you remember his science project, Harry Sue, on the trajectory of spitballs? I tell you, that modest little display taught our students more about physics than I could accomplish in a weeklong unit at the middle school ↗

— Sue Stauffacher

#science #science

In a basic agricultural society, it's easy enough to swap five chickens for a new dress or to pay a schoolteacher with a goat and three sacks of rice. Barter works less well in a more advanced economy. The logistical challenges of using chickens to buy books on Amazon.com would be formidable. ↗

— Charles Wheelan

#economics #science

We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations. ↗

— Bryan Sykes

#science

The definition of an expert: x is an unknown quantity spurt is a drip under pressure ↗

— Anonymous or Vincent Bellini

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يا أمة اقرأ اقرئي لتتعلمي ولتعملي وإلا أحاط بك اجهل فأذلك أعداؤك وأعداء الله والقرآن يقول ( ولله العزة ولرسوله وللمؤمنين ) فكيف تكون العزة للجاهلين ؟! ↗

— د. أحمد البراء الأميري

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