#science

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#before #being #even #gods #made

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#how #important #know #science #she

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #calls #conscience #follows #his

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience. ↗

— Mike Royko

#conscience #elevate #hollywood #likes #national

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#american #american people #conscience #forcing #liberties

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#book #case #i #kind #new

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#could #fail #fiction #fiction writer #i

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#carry #experiments #fiction #lets #nice

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#characters #fiction #fiction writers #happens #into

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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