Quotes of: Physical-science Keyword

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best exa...

Social Sciences as Sorcery

However, as I hope to persuade you, there are some interesting connections between science and magic. They share a belief, as one mathematician put it, that what is visible is merely a superficial reality, not the underlying "real reality." They both...

The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works

The Secoya are trapped between the devastating effects of the colonization frontier and their rich traditional past, which is proving to be as fragile a reality and as fleeting a memory as the most powerful visions of their esoteric science. But inst...

Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the ...

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that m...

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, becau...

Where is Science Going?

Science fiction is the fiction of ideas. Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I’m borrowing energy from the ideas themselves. Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and does...

Ray Bradbury

I'll bite: Hard science TA's and RA's often repair equipment; it's part of our science. If you want a silver spoon, don't go to grad school. Science is all about dangerous chemicals, semi-safe experimental equipment, and 4am drives down gravel roads ...

Life

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to......

William James

Life is the most effective school ever created. Once upon a time they made children bow their heads and read books. It would take ages to get anything across." He taps his head. "But we have widgets and datapads now, and we Golds have the lower Color...

Red Rising

The capital ... shall form a fund, the interest of which shall be distributed annually as prizes to those persons who shall have rendered humanity the best services during the past year. ... One-fifth to the person having made the most important disc...

Alfred Nobel

Kazu, now that she thought of it, realized that for all her headstrong temperament, she had never loved a man younger than herself. A young man has such a surplus of spiritual and physical gifts that he is likely to be cocksure of himself, particular...

After The Banquet

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hu...

George Pólya

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

Chance and Necessity

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Cosmos

Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self

I tell you it's deadly when you start thinking your wife might be right.

Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

Tabii ki Tanrı, Laplace'nin (eşyanın nasıl işlediğine dair) matematiksel tarifinde yer almaz, tıpkı Bay Ford'un içten yanmalı motorun bilimsel tarifinde yer almadığı gibi.

God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs