#scienc

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. ↗

— Josef Albers

#ah #art #creative #creative process #process

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#acts #against #always #conscience #every

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#company #curate #dukes #feel #find

Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#fantasy #fiction #i #science #science fiction

Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#am #archaeology #astronomy #based #basis

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#him #man #mathematics #study #wandering

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. ↗

— Roger Bacon

#brain #count #easiest #fact #how

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#almost #becoming #century #everything #fiction

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#books #bunch #continental #crap #cycle

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. ↗

— Robert Barclay

#conscience #contrary #first #force #goods