#science

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#science #seismology #western-civilization #science

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#conscience #apocalypse

...if you aren't, at any given time, scandalized by code you wrote five or even three years ago, you're not learning anywhere near enough ↗

— Nick Black

#funny-but-true #funny

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch. ↗

— Steve Martin

#religion #science #humor

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they? ↗

— Carl Sagan

#nerds #religion #science #humor

When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning #physics #science #humor

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#science #humor

For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#science #humor

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cybernetics #science #art

You know what, Michael? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship of loathing. ↗

— Meinos Kaen

#humor #science-fiction #scifi #beauty