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Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look, imagine that you humans are a man in LA with a brand-new Trujillo and we are a nuhp in New York with a beat-up old Ford. The two fellows start driving toward St. Louis. Now, the guy in the Trujillo is doing 120 on the interstates, and the guy in the Ford is putting along at 55; but the human in the Trujillo stops in Vegas and puts all of his gas money down the hole of a blackjack table, and the determined little nuhp cruises along for days until at last he reaches his goal. It's all a matter of superior intellect and the will to succeed. Your people talk a lot about going to the stars, but you just keep putting your money into other projects, like war and popular music and international athletic events and resurrecting the fashions of previous decades. If you wanted to go into space, you would have. ↗

— George Alec Effinger

#science-fiction #space #space-exploration #space-program #space-travel

I confess, that very different from you, I do find sometimes scientific inspiration in mysticism … but this is counterbalanced by an immediate sense for mathematics. ↗

— Wolfgang Pauli

#inspirational

We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future. ↗

— Bernard Lown

#science #inspirational

Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. ↗

— Jacques Monod

#science #science

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#science-fiction #science

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease ↗