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On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drinnk between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humour #science-fiction #science

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Objects Somewhere). ↗

— Bill Bryson

#humour #physics #science #space #science

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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That year the Ribeiro's daffodils seeded early and they seeded cockroaches. Now, ecologically speaking, even a cockroach has its place -- but these suckers bit. That didn't sound Earth-authentic to me. Not that I care, mind you, all I ask is useful. I wasn't betting on that either. ↗

— Janet Kagan

#opening-lines #science-fiction #science

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power. ↗

— Donna Haraway

#objectivity #partial-perspective #rhetoric #science-studies #situated-knowledge

If political scientists couldn’t predict the downfall of the Soviet Union—perhaps the most important event in the latter half of the twentieth century—then what exactly were they good for? ↗

— Nate Silver

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Ahhh! The Sky, Heaven and Hell..Those three words were known in the East..Once you take them out of our earthly world, the whole world will fall apart..all the masterpieces we have made would sound and look platitude. I know the West now is an object of admiration for its science and discoveries but what does it worth judging by the greatest discoveries that were found in the east?! Verily the West is exploring the Earth and the East is exploring the Sky. ↗

— Tawfik Al-Hakim

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How many color patterns can your severed arm produce in one second? ↗

— Wendy Williams

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To believe in nothing is as ridiculous as to believe in everything. Reason and factual evidence may convert a belief into knowledge. ↗

— Felix Alba-Juez

#philosophy #science #science

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical. ↗

— Samael Aun Weor

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