#sci

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us. ↗

— Jim Carroll

#conscience #death #ghosts #poetry #death

Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#mystery #romance #scifi #death

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#death

Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#confident #development #discipline #growth #life

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#compassion #discipline #love #parenting #love

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#science #wars #death

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#science-fiction #sf #death

Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#learning #science #death

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. ↗

— David Eagleman

#death #existentialism #human-nature #life #love

Look into your heart and ask yourself, what would you die for?" "I don't know. There’s really no reason for it, with modern science as advanced as it is. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #science #death