Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

[messier 111]

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Arthur M. Schlesinger

[messier 111]

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith

[GCoyote]

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Arthur M. Schlesinger

memory, tradition and myth = culture

[messier 111]

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Ralph Waldo Emerson

[messier 111]

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash

[messier 111]

What is research but a blind date with knowledge? Will Harvey

[notFritzArgelander]

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash

I think she is speaking in marketing tense......

https://www.animal-dynamics.com/the-bum ... ight-myth/

[messier 111]

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley

[messier 111]

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. Jacques Yves Cousteau

[messier 111]

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. Neil Armstrong

[messier 111]

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. Lewis Thomas

[messier 111]

There are no shortcuts in evolution. Louis D. Brandeis

[messier 111]

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. George Santayana

[messier 111]

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. Robert Quillen

[messier 111]

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly. Linus Pauling

[messier 111]

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. Stephen Jay Gould

[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

[messier 111]

Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Nikola Tesla

[messier 111]

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger

[messier 111]

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