#scienc

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science. ↗

— Larry Wall

#architecture #came #coming #computer #computer science

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. ↗

— Steven Weinberg

#contributions #good #good thing #great #historical

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ↗

— Rebecca West

#astrology #astronomy #before #like #military

We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades. Far fewer. Yet, every decade, global consumption continues to increase relentlessly. ↗

— Stephen Emmott

#environmentalism #science #food

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#am #bad #because #conscience #duty

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#collaboration #community #hardest #only #open

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#appeals #been #conscience #effectual #ever

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#american people #any #arouse #citizen #conscience

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#before #came #domestic #finishing #found

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#cost #cover #divorced #economics #economists