#sea

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#science #search-for-meaning #science

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#science #science

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile. ↗

— Hans Selye

#science #science

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ↗

— Albert Camus

#strength #trial #triumph #strength

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#searching #travel #travel

What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#searching #seeking #dance

We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us. ↗

— Daniel Abraham

#death #renewal #seasons #death

B-T-W," Heather said. "What's with the death wish?" "What are you talking about?" "I'm talking about provoking the wicked witch of the west. You look old? Are you trying to get us both killed?" "She does look old. Or at least, older than she used to." "It doesn't matter! Two things you never comment on when it comes to girls: their age and their weight. That's male survival 101. Come on! ↗

— Chelsea Fine

#chelsea-fine #gabriel #heather #age

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#infidelity #relationships #seasons #summer #relationships