Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

[messier 111]

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

[messier 111]

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. Friedrich August von Hayek

[notFritzArgelander]

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury

There’s nothing so sweet to see as excessively cheerful optimism. Nevertheless, the history of science trends towards increasing impossibilities.

[notFritzArgelander]

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. Friedrich August von Hayek

The predictive power of simple theories has the happy consequence of increased knowledge.

[messier 111]

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. Albert Einstein

[messier 111]

We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations. Mae Jemison

[messier 111]

Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time. Robert Lanza

[notFritzArgelander]

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature. Albert Einstein

It also remedies overconfidence. Reality is the best teacher.

[messier 111]

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking. Deepak Chopra

[messier 111]

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space. Vitruvius

[messier 111]

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe

[GCoyote]

"Collectively we make this future that we surprise ourselves with."
Adam Buxton

[messier 111]

Science is not a collection of facts; it is a process of discovery. Robert Zubrin

[messier 111]

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. Henri Poincare

[messier 111]

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. Adam Savage

[messier 111]

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break. Earl Wilson

[messier 111]

We live in this world in order always to learn industriously and to enlighten each other by means of discussion and to strive vigorously to promote the progress of science and the fine arts. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

[messier 111]

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. Michael Shermer

[notFritzArgelander]

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. Michael Shermer

So, with deities and ideologies available for every choice, one reveals one’s values in the course of a life.

[messier 111]

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara W. Tuchma