#scienc

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining

Why do you like show jumping?" "... Beauty and excitement. The elements of trust, talent, training, love, and danger make show jumping a thrilling and aesthetic experience. It's really the ultimate test of two nervous systems--the kinetic transfer of the rider's muscle to the horse's muscle enables them to clear those jumps. And there's nothing like it--horse and rider forming an arc of beauty, efficiency, and power, like a double helix." "DNA," "Yes, DNA, the code to life. ↗

— Ainslie Sheridan

#equestrian #horse #horses #science #show-jumping

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued. ↗

— Bill Dana

#blood #discontinued #his #old #type

It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#advantage #changing #common #contribute #controlling

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#close #does #doing #doing good #fact

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#began #challenges #create #environment #extremely

Ayurveda is a sister philosophy to yoga. It is the science of life or longevity and it teaches about the power and the cycles of nature, as well as the elements. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#cycles #elements #life #longevity #nature

If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#action #believed #bolshevism #change #climate

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#been #fiction #forty #forty years #recording

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#annual #british #chum #fiction #first