#sci

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

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #science-fiction #religion

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#family #fascinated #you

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#i #i think #institutions #leaders #practising

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#area #attention #better #concerns #ecology

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#bit #community #either #good #good thing

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#ambition #behind #conscious #fiercely #i