#scienc

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. ↗

— Mike Pence

#been #cell #cell research #completely #country

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#buddy #different #english #fiction #john

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. ↗

— Karl Popper

#described #may #science #systematic

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#condemns #depth #discovers #great #infinitely

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#atheism #belief #religion #science #age

(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#crush-them-with-logic #anger

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. ↗

— Julian May

#brain #ceases #fiction #human #human race

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #inspirational #life #nature #science

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#anchor #becomes #conflicts #confusion #conscience

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#always #connected #everyday #feeling #fiction