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Remember, the only thing to fear is Fear, and - well, don't even fear Fear, for he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run if you show a brave front. ↗

— William W. Atkinson

#goals #mental-science #science

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about what constitutes good or evil. They don't care whether we are happy or unhappy. We're just means to an end for them. The only thing they think about is what is most efficient for them. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#heredity #humanity #science #science

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#accurate #best #common #common sense #fallacy

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

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One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun. ↗

— Brian W. Aldiss

#space-opera #science

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#skepticism #science