#scienc

I hear them marvel at my work--my indignant science. I hear them call out in fear of what they see. And there are some gentlemen who doubt what I will tell them. They call me a liar and a charlatan or a quack. But in time the methods of science that I now employ to convince people will surely set them free--alas, this I cannot explain to the angry fools. (Spencer Black) ↗

— E.B. Hudspeth

#science #art

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ↗

— Robert Buettner

#conformity #grand-picture #human-behavior #human-superiority #humankind

I am using the word theory as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical models that it is essentially indistinguishable from fact. That is different from the colloquial use that means "guess." To a scientist, you can bet your life on a theory. Remember, gravity is "just a theory" too. ↗

— Philip C. Plait

#theory #death

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#science #life

The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of affairs is feasible only because the resources accessible to life can be used over and over again. ↗

— I.I. Gitelson

#recycling #science #life

We all know interspecies romance is weird. ↗

— Tim Burton

#animals #biology #genetics #interspecies #love

I was like I was in science class: I was curious. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#science #love

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#cumulative #democracy #education #history #inheritance

Religion has always persecuted science. ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #religion #science #religion

It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door. ↗

— James Rollins

#judas-strain #sigma-force #thriller #science