#science

So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#because #came #discovered #early #fantasy

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#actually #agree #climate #like #more

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#consciences #feed #i #i think #ought

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. ↗

— Wernher von Braun

#doing #i #know #research

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#end #exists #journey #moreover #only

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together. ↗

— John Brough

#boundary #commerce #done #floats #gave

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. ↗

— Margaret Deland

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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

#conscience #excesses #feared #more #regulation

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #science #age

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#actually #add #amazingly #biggest #consciousness