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Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.


Miriam Allen de Ford


#fantasy #science-fiction #science

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.


Henry Hazlitt


#power-of-words #vocabulary #words #science

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.


Alexandre Dumas


#philosophy #truth #science

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.


Haruki Murakami


#loneliness #science-fiction #science

Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see.


C.S. Lewis


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There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.


Carl Sagan


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The miracle of modern science. The LEP pours millions into your department, Foaly, and all you can do is send Mud Boys to the toilet.


Eoin Colfer


#holly #lep #mud-boys #toilet #science

To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.


Evelyn Fox Keller


#truth #science

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.


Arthur C. Clarke


#science #science

[I]sn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?


Richard Dawkins


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