#scienc

Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money ↗

— Robert Brockway

#humor #satire #science #business

Ils n'ont aucune raison de faire du business avec nous. Tu fais des affaires avec tes souris de laboratoires ou tes grenouilles d'élevages? ↗

— Bernard Werber

#business

Now, this was a combination that she wouldn’t dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare. ↗

— B. Barmanbek

#future #science-fiction #utopia #dreams

In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#intelligence #science #education

He laid the foundation of a universal government. His law was one for all. Equal justice and love for everyone. ↗

— George Rivorie

#destiny #earth #equality #equality-of-cultures #foundation

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business. ↗

— Robert Reed

#always #being #business #fiction #i

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#evidence #science #scripture #science

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. ↗

— Dava Sobel

#invention #inventors #science #science

Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time. The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which time it is too late. So predicting what will be a waste of time is something of a waste of time. Unless it gives you pleasure of course when it probably doesn't count as a waste of time. Leela (yawning): I am sorry I did not hear what you said, Doctor. The Doctor (smiling): That was a waste of time then. ↗

— Chris Boucher

#humor #science-fiction #science

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton. ↗

— Ben Goldacre

#science #science