#scienc

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#beauty

Whenever there is harmony, there is life. ↗

— Muhammad E. Osman

#life #scienc #wisdom #beauty

Nature is beautiful, such beautiful must be based on beautiful facts and beautiful laws ↗

— Muhammad E. Osman

#inspiration #nature #science #wisdom #beauty

Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#science #sharks #beauty

We must have clean air and water, and beautiful natural foods for everyone, everywhere. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#clear-conscience #environment #beauty

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology. ↗

— Charles Petzold

#computer-science #programming #technology #beauty

A recent survey of 2,000 male graduates of Harvard Business School found that penis length & IQ were equally good predictors of annual income. -- from "Eugene ↗

— Greg Egan

#science-fiction #business

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal verities' on which literature graduates base their doctoral dissertations. Literature departments were uncomfortable with that. But things change. ↗

— David Brin

#change

I [am] obliged to recur ultimately to my habitual anodyne, "I feel: therefore I exist." I feel bodies which are not myself: there are other existencies then. I call them "matter". I feel them changing place. This gives me "motion". Where there is an absence of matter, I call it "void", or "nothing", or "immaterial space". On the basis of sensation, of matter and motion, we may erect the fabric of all the certainties we can have or need. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#science #change

It is inconceivable that our mind does not change according to where we might be, and how we perceived in it. ↗

— Tsan-Kuo Chang

#change