#scienc

And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#philosophy #science #life

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#life #science #stephen-hawking #life

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. ↗

— William James

#life

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. ↗

— Albert A. Bartlett

#humanity #life #science #sustainability #sustainable-development

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#humor #inspiration #science #humor

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#humor #interviews #on-fiction #science-fiction #humor

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity. ↗

— David Sedaris

#guilt #humor #ponder #humor

...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance. ↗

— Brian Greene

#physics #quantum-mechanics #science #humor

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#anatomy #biological #biology #brain #cognition

…sometimes you need to be imaginative about what kinds of research you do, compromise and be driven by the questions that need answering, rather than the tools available to you. ↗

— Ben Goldacre

#imagination