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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#philosophers #science

This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions; journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view. ↗

— Christopher Essex

#science #science

You barbarians!' he yelled. 'I'll sue the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled...until...until...until...until you've had enough.' Ford was running after him. Very very fast. 'And then I will do it again!' yelled Arthur, 'And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them! ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #science-fiction #violence #humor

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#outdoors #science #nature

That's new.” His gaze was hot and fierce. “My cock? I'm fairly certain it's always been there.” His grin flashed briefly. “No Lio, you've been cut. Circumcised.” “Oh.” I stared at the smooth column of my shaft. “That must have hurt. ↗

— Belinda McBride

#science-fiction-romance #science

A whore is a whore is a whore. Except when he's something else completely. From the writings of King Helios Dayspring, High Priest of the Temple of the Sun ↗

— Belinda McBride

#science-fiction #science

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing. ↗

— David Eagleman

#mind #science #science

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#herd-mentality #peer-pressure #reputation #science

No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it. ↗

— Atul Gawande

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If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and worse ways to secure it, then some cultures will tend to produce lives that are more worth living than others; some political persuasions will be more enlightened than others; and some world views will be mistaken in ways that cause needless human misery. ↗

— Sam Harris

#neuroscience #well-being #science