#scienc

We ourselves are made of Stardust. ↗

— Carl Sagam

#science #stardust #stars #universe #science

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives? ↗

— Tom Holt

#science #science

I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me. ↗

— Toba Beta

#subject-to #time-travel #science

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. ↗

— Philip José Farmer

#genre #kurt-vonnegut #parable #ray-bradbury #science-fiction

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me ↗

— Carlyle Labuschagne

#fantasy #fiction #hot-release #new-release #science-fiction

In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#science

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#science

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound. ↗

— Lydia Millet

#science #war #science

Billions of years ago God was creating universes and life; thousands of years ago he was creating angry floods, sin-saving human sacrifices and audible burning bushes. Today he occasionally appears on a piece of toast. To state that God has become reclusive over the years would be an overwhelming understatement. ↗

— Trevor Treharne

#atheist #god #logic #philosophy #reason

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words. ↗

— Gustave Le Bon

#propaganda-government #science