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By the standards of a tourist strolling past looking for a quick lunch, the place was a dive. The sign on the window was small and easy to miss, and the antique feel of the place wasn't the prepackaged, old-shit-on-the-wall nostalgia that came with so many chain restaurants. The cafe was just old, and everything about it said old. But Jon liked it that way, if only because it kept the tourists away and spared him from hearing imported ignorance when there was plenty of local ignorance to go around. ↗

— Scott B. Pruden

#humorous-quotes #immaculate-deception #satire #science-fiction #science-fiction-comedy

Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in a grid. (Broilers are never in cages, and never on multiple levels.) Now enclose the grid with windowless walls and put a ceiling on top. Run in automated (drug-laced) feed, water, heating, and ventilation systems. This is a farm. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#imagination

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky... ↗

— John Noble Wilford

#force #imagination #mars #red #science

He takes two steps back. Closer to the portal. I can't stop myself. "Ben," I call. And I'm not even embarrassed about how helpless my voice sounds. Don't go. "I'll come back for you." He takes another step back. "I promise." Stay. "Janelle Tenner," he says. "I will always fucking love you." And then he takes one more step back. Into the portal. And the blackness swallows him whole. ↗

— Elizabeth Norris

#crying #fiction #science-fiction #science-fiction-romance #unraveling

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. ↗

— Antonin Scalia

#science

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind. ↗

— Émilie Du Châtelet

#engineering #math #passonate-minds #rights #science

One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be a divine intent behind in all....The Creator is revealed through his Creation. ↗

— Whrnher Von Braun

#science

Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. ↗

— Coleridge

#science

ولا تظنن أن معرفة درجات الوحي تستدعي منصب الوحي إذ لا يبعد أن يعرف الطبيب المريض درجات الصحة ويعلم العالم الفاسق درجات العدالة وإن كان خاليا عنها فالعلم شيء ووجود المعلوم شيء آخر فلا كل من عرف النبوة والولاية كان نبيا ولا وليا ولا كل من عرف التقوى والورع ودقائقه كان تقيا ↗

— أبو حامد الغزالي

#science

For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition. ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #philosophy #reason #science #science