#scienc

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#humor #science #art

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated. ↗

— Leon Kass

#advances #certain #complicated #foundations #make

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#boldly #called #conscience #could #everyday

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#destroyed #fiction #film #genre #great

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen. ↗

— Elle Fanning

#art #finding #happen #i #i love

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years. ↗

— George E. Brown, Jr.

#basis #been #better #better world #could

I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally dull and trying to make them interesting. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#book #dull #enjoy #generally #histories

Evil societies always kill their consciences. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#consciences #evil #kill #societies #their

I do enjoy reading some science fiction. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#enjoy reading #fiction #i #i do #reading