#science

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. ↗

— Karl Popper

#described #may #science #systematic

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#conscience #europeans #example #importance #know

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#condemns #depth #discovers #great #infinitely

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#sacred #science #worship #art

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. ↗

— Vera Rubin

#best #force #observations #our #preconceptions

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#been #economics #even #few #less

I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO ↗

— Anthony Antek

#literature #relationships #social-science #beauty

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man. ↗

— James Sanborn

#accepted #actually #agency #between #commission

Lily, the girl who’d talked back to the jock, said, “I want to get as far away from my parents as possible. We’re like potassium and water.” The other kids laughed and I said, “Huh?” “If potassium comes into contact with water, it instantly combusts,” Lily said slowly so if she was talking to a child. ↗

— Marta Acosta

#nerd-joke #science #funny

His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someone he knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like death. Someone he loved? ↗

— Jaye Wells

#humor #science-fiction #urban-fantasy #death