#scienc

The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing. ↗

— Charles Munch

#burden #collective #conscience #every #his

A satellite has no conscience. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#conscience #satellite

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#been #connected #distinction #earthly #higher

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#as far as #century #far #held #huxley

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles." (Young India, 22 October 1925) ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conscience #humanity #morality #politics #principles

You are so... 11:59 ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#fantasy #horror #midnighters #science-fiction #science

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#science #science

The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double-backwards-somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: So long and thanks for all the fish. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#science-fiction #science

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#best #family #father #had #interest

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone. ↗

— John Oldham

#alone #conscience #god #lord #myself