#scienc

The Greek myths are a bit outdated, but not as much as the distant galaxies they remind me of whenever I look up at night. The historical and the scientific – two different aspects of the overactive imagination that fit together nicely in space. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #history #humor #imagination #myths

The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul. ↗

— Gavin Pretor-Pinney

#funny #science #funny

I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out. ↗

— Jim Benton

#funny #science #scientists #funny

The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#science #humor

Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#science #smile #teach #think #love

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science #humor

The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#exploration #science #solar-system #life

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others. ↗

— Eric Diehl

#fantasy #horror #science-fiction #imagination

When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning #physics #science #humor

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#science #humor