#scienc

(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics. ↗

— Brian Cox

#inspirational #physics #science #inspirational

He was following the Earth through its days, drifting with the rhythms of its myriad pulses, seeping through the webs of its life, swelling with its tides, turning with its weight. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#inspirational #life #science #inspirational

Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.–Neville Goddard ↗

— Neville Goddard

#inspirational #law-of-attraction #science #spiritual #inspirational

In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science-fiction #society #inspirational

Se estaba enseñando a sí mismo a pensar por su cuenta, a mirar detrás de las apariencias en un esfuerzo para descubrir la causa próxima ↗

— Dr. A. J. Cronin

#inspirational

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#broadest #contribution #engaged #enrichment #human

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#both #governed #hand #inorganic #maintains

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world. ↗

— Roger Ascham

#heads #how #live #mark #mathematical

La science est une nouvelle religion et la désinfection est son eau bénite. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#religion #science #religion

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#clues #continue #could #develop #fascinating