#scienc

Please don't die. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#humor #inspirational #love #science #tumor

Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about. ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

#science #communication

At best he read popular science magazines like the Scientific American he had now, to keep himself up-to-date, in layman's terms, with physics generally. But even then his concentration was marred, for a lifetime's habit made him inconveniently watchful for his own name. He saw it as if in bold. It could leap out at him from an unread double page of small print, and sometimes he could sense it coming before the page turn. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#humor #ian-mcewan #physics #science #dating

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. ↗

— Cornel West

#nihilism #social-science #nature

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics. ↗

— Amy Carter

#leaning #like #physics #probably #sciences

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. ↗

— Sam Harris

#reason #religion #science #skeptic #faith

Why do they wait until sixth grade when you already know everything? ↗

— Judy Blume

#omniscience #overconfidence #education

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#branch #education #every #given #giving

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. ↗

— Eric Raymond

#education

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #philosophy #science #death