#tis

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams ↗

— David McCullough

#patriotism #political #service #service

When I get excited I drool. That’s why I buy bibs wholesale from my dentist. Based on that alone you could label me a romantic.
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— Jarod Kintz

#deal #dentist #drool #excite #excited

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #creative #experiential #focus #instrumental

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#conflict #science-fiction #science

I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. ↗

— Yann Martel

#science #scientists #science

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk. ↗

— Aristotle

#atom #atomic #atomic-science #atoms #democritus

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone. ↗

— Harmony Korine

#scientist #science

It is a scientifically proven fact that all scientifically proven facts have originated from original and thereby unproven theories. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#science #scientism #science

A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst! ↗

— Rick Yancey

#science

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. ↗

— Scarlett Thomas

#metaphysics #science #science