science

"You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)"

"Yes, you can--if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritic…"

"There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. (Hays translation)"

"Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home."

"Princess, my little Princess, Oh, how wonderful it will be! I am coming with money and staying a long time and bringing something beautiful for you and then go on to Paris and become a great scholar a…"

"Whence do you have it that the terrestrial globe is so heavy? For my part, either I do not know what heaviness is, or the terrestrial globe is neither heavy nor light, as likewise all other globes of …"

"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."

"Time's glory is to calm contending kings,To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."

"L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'être."

"If I had had more time, this letter would have been shorter."

"The Beagle staid at St. Helena five days, during which time I lived in the clouds in the centre of the Isd.—It is a curious little world within itself; the habitable part is surrounded by a broad band…"

"The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything."

"One of the most obvious features that characterizes any technology is its in-betweenness. Suppose Alice lives in Rio de Janeiro, not in Oxford. A hat is a technology between her and the sunshine. A pa…"

"On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:"Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather p…"

"In Singapore, house renovation had only one goal — to convey wealth. He had seen houses that appeared huge, with a vast amount of road frontage, only to pass by another day using another route and dis…"

"Crazy people do not apply the principle of scientific parsimony... they shoot for the baroque."

"Long ago, physics and other natural sciences... had become computational."

"Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water."

"And when you start using a lot of psychedelics, and particularly a lot of the natural psychedelics, my experience has been that I come in contact with some very old entities. And these entities have b…"

"Adam Smith began his Wealth of Nations with an examination of the internal works of a pin factory, but he soon turned his attention to other things: the coordination of a market system and the economi…"