#scienc

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones. ↗

— Robert Wright

#science #science

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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[...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries of the human body forming a group of observations furnishing us with the earliest known nucleus of fact regarding the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the human body. Crude and elementary as they are, the method by which they were collected was scientific, and these observations, together with the diagnoses and the explanatory commentary in the ancient glosses, form the oldest body of science now extant. ↗

— James Henry Breasted

#ancient-egypt #ancient-medicine #biology #hieroglyphic #medical-history

There ain't no sky,' said one [boy]. But what is it that ain't?' asked the other. ↗

— J.T. Fraser

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A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#earth #science #space-exploration #science

Before there were books, we read each other. ↗

— Lisa Cron

#women-writers #women-writers-on-writing #writing #science

Be Swag ↗

— Kelly Carbage

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…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#creation-myths #mythology #science #science

Y, justo Cuando terminó la canción, lo supe: Estaba perdido, igual que tu padre. Después, una vez Siguientes Durante los años, Intenté reunir el valor Suficiente para hablar contigo. ↗

— suzzane collins

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In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#science-fiction #stories #the-self #writing #science