#sen

Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#ordinarily #pain #pleasure #regarded #sensations

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#essence #unity #variety

There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#couple #every #hundred #members #probably

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#debt #earn #fellow #highest #highest reward

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#congress #could #credentials #down #events

If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#analysis #answer #barbarian #behaviour #clear

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#being #great #great men #job #men

At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied. ↗

— Adeline Yen Mah

#age

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment. ↗

— David Viscott

#allow #feel #lists #now #people

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenging #challenging-authority #comedian #comedic #comedy