#scienc

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#design

One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy ↗

— William Gibson

#science

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attibutable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#science #science

Vampires are people too! ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#science

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#science

the mind is a neural computer ↗

— Steven Pinker

#science

What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#physics #science

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." ↗

— Albert Einstein

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We are all star stuff. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#stars #science

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#sex #science