#scienc

All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way. ↗

— Joe Nickell

#forensics #science #science

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #radical-science #science

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#science #science

We ourselves are made of Stardust. ↗

— Carl Sagam

#science #stardust #stars #universe #science

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives? ↗

— Tom Holt

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I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me. ↗

— Toba Beta

#subject-to #time-travel #science

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#genre #kurt-vonnegut #parable #ray-bradbury #science-fiction

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me ↗

— Carlyle Labuschagne

#fantasy #fiction #hot-release #new-release #science-fiction

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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