Quotes on science

Human tool-makers make tools help us get want, want hasn’t changed tho — Margaret Atwood, Worlds: SF Human Imagination

In Other Worlds: SF Margaret Atwood the Human Imagination
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Sometime going essay called ‘The Virtues Amateurism’ people wish earne — Robert James Waller, Bridges Madison County

Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County
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Himalayas crowning achievement Indo-Australian plate. India Oligocene — John McPhee, Annals Former World

Annals of the Former World John McPhee
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Tell eat tell are. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem l — David Deutsch, Fabric Reality: Science Parallel Universes–and Implications

David Deutsch Its Implications The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--
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Blind metaphysical necessity, certainly every where, produce no variet — Isaac Newton, Principia: Mathematical Principles Natural Philosophy

Isaac Newton The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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A curious aspect theory evolution everybody thinks understands it. — Jacques Monod, Selected Papers Molecular Biology

Jacques Monod Selected Papers in Molecular Biology
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Science a way call bluff pretend knowledge. a bulwark mysticism, super — Carl Sagan, Demon-Haunted World: Science a Candle Dark

Carl Sagan The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Metaphysical speculation independent physical validity Big Bang irrele — Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe Nothing: Something Rather Nothing

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing Lawrence M. Krauss
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Don’t know science doesn’t work like that? can’t order scientific brea — Connie Willis, Bellwether

Bellwether Connie Willis
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