#scienc

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#chaos #first #made #make #material

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#conscience #expensive #life #many #more

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#arctic national wildlife refuge #cannot #conscience #drilling #final

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. ↗

— Robert Redford

#better #conscience #good #health #hell

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#biomedical #fantasy #i #i love #love

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#fiction #future #get #kind #logical

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#books #character #fantasy #few #fiction

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#ball #clear #clear conscience #conscience #either

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#any #civil #civil war #development #direction