#scienc

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists. ↗

— Kage Baker

#science

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them. ↗

— Drew Gilpin Faust

#science

Sure, at some level scientists know nanobots will destroy mankind. They just can't resist seeing how it happens. ↗

— Cracked.com

#humour #science #science

For a long time, I wanted to become a theologian. Now, however, behold, how through my efforts God is being glorified through astronomy. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

#job #knowledge #minitry #science #theology

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#evidence #science #science

I am the Eschaton. I am not your God. I am descended from you, and exist in your future. Thou shalt not violate causality within my historic light cone. Or else. ↗

— Charles Stross

#science

...[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#science-fiction #writing #science

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#science #science

The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered. ↗

— Cherie Priest

#zombies #science

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science. ↗

— Robert A.F. Thurman

#psychology #science #spirituality #wisdom #science