#science

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles. ↗

— Robert Stikmanz

#humor #science-fiction #death

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on. ↗

— David Brin

#best #change #deal #does #explore

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #changes #deal #except #far

It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#clear #different #experiments #made #method

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#conscience #get #huge #i #me

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#conscience #only #than #the only thing #thing

I’ve often wondered why more science textbooks don’t tell teenagers that the only thing sharks like to eat more than fish, are dead prostitutes. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead #fish #funny #humor #prostitutes

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years. ↗

— Bill Condon

#belong #does #imposition #morality #onto

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ↗

— Joseph Cook

#compass #conscience #magnetic #our #reason

To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#beauty