A little of this. A little of that.
“Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.
Margaret Atwood
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
-Carl Sagan
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -Albert Einstein
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said ‘What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.’ The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, ‘What is the turtle standing on’ ‘You’re very clever, young man, very clever,’ said the little old lady. ‘But it’s turtles all the way down.’
– Stephen William Hawking
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
— Stephan Leacock – Humorist, Political Scientist, Teacher, Writer
Science may never come up with a better office
communication system than the coffee break.
— Earl Wilson
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
– H.L. Mencken
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-Stephen Leacock
