#science

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#knowledge #science #wisdom #science

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. ↗

— Brian W. Aldiss

#science

Why would you take a drug that is guaranteed to kill you in forty years? One reason, right? It's the only thing that will stop you dying tomorrow. ↗

— Sharon Moalem

#survival-of-the-sickest #science

E=mc2 ↗

— Einstien

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We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire... ↗

— Cordwainer Smith

#fire #on #revolution #science #stars

Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is. ↗

— Ben Goldacre

#medicine #science #science

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

#writing #science

I don't need to travel back in time to cause trouble. Seeing back through time finds me trouble enough! ↗

— A.A. Bell

#humour #science #science

...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they told Galileo, then Hutton, Darwin, Von Neumann, and Crick, always retreating with great dignity before the latest scientific advance, then drawing the next holy perimeter at the shadowy rim of knowledge. ↗

— David Brin

#questions #religion #science #scientists #religion

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.” Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#lesion #truth-telling #science