#scienc

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve. ↗

— Jerry A. Coyne

#conclusion-before-evidence #confessions-of-the-darwinists #conjecture #darwin #darwinism

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

#scifi #writing #writing-skills #science

I take it you know my companion?" Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything." Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby. ↗

— Simon R. Green

#science-fiction #science

Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#effect #time #science

Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#pity #pride #science

What does he mean," I asked, "the humanistic values implicit in the physical sciences?" "You ask him," my father said. "Maybe he knows. Maybe down deep in the atom there's a little man sitting in a rocking chair reading the evening paper. ↗

— John Updike

#writer #science

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn’t know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn’t know he was a novelist either." (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988) ↗

— John Irving

#novelists #psychiatrists #science #sigmund-freud #science

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#philosophers #science

This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view. ↗

— Christopher Essex

#science #science

You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until...until you've had enough.' Ford was running after him. Very very fast. 'And then I will do it again!' yelled Arthur, 'And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them! ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #science-fiction #violence #humor