#super

The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#continuous #dividing #dividing line #every #just

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#admit #concern #does #first #himself

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#extraordinary #mankind #must #pretensions #race

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#examination #great #imagined #immense #knowledge

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#admiration #consists #details #feeble #frail

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#behind #believe #concern #consider #ethics

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#compelling #exercise #force #game #internal

Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#books #course #designed #few #forever

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#building #dignity #empowerment #flowers #gender