#scienc

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#age #become #creates #generation #greater

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#everything #fiction #history #i #mathematics

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. ↗

— Max Planck

#come #every #go #great #i

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

#because #convincing #die #does #eventually

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#madness #science #sublimity #taught #us

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#early #ever #fiction #fiction writers #first

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#after #bbc #been #capable #doctor

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. ↗

— Robert Redford

#better #conscience #good #health #hell

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#long #long period #made #measurements #period