“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” FactsSpiritualScienceDeathDesireReligionFallPsychologyAtheismDyingStrengthIllusionAtheistAgnosticPsychiatryAtheisticReligion In Society Book:Major Works Source: Major Works
“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.” FirstsFactsEyeScienceOrderFallLinesSawsFitFirst TimeGardenStandingChemistryTransformedSchemesRecipesJungleDutchBoyhoodHaphazardPeriodic TableMedley Book:The Search Source: The Search
“One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.” WayEnoughScienceFallCausesProcessLossAnimalStepsFoodSourceClimateClimate ChangePopulationCriticalRapidsDisturbingBreedingMismatch Author:Naomi Klein
“When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.” IfsWorldWayWarSoulBigsScienceFallLostWishFearLossMoneyCasesShareEventsHotAskingSavedMy SoulAgentsEaseWar Of The WorldsPrizeWorld War IiWorld War IPotatoesNobelLumpsNobel Prize Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.” WritingTwoHumorFunnyScienceFallSecretGroupsCriticismObservationReviewsBad Reviews Book:Gold: the final science fiction collection Source: Gold: the final science fiction collection
“So while you're getting ripped apart head to toe as you fall into a black hole, you will also extrude through the fabric of space and time, like toothpaste squeezed through a tube. To all the words in the English language that describe ways to die (e.g., homicide, suicide, electrocution, suffocation, starvation) we add the term spaghettification.” WayScienceDiesFallLanguageBlackTermSpaceSuicideAddHolesFabricToesTime And SpaceEnglish LanguageStarvationTubesRippedBlack HoleHomicideToothpaste Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order-sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought-have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry.” WorldHumansLongSometimesWholeMomentsFactsStoriesHandsFormLawSciencePurposeOrderFallInterestImaginationCreativeSawsCenturyDiscoveryUnitySignificantIntenseWhole WorldPassingPassingsLabourEpicPioneersTorchesEndeavourScientific DiscoveryCreative ImaginationGreat MomentsUnity Of Purpose Book:Watchers of the Sky Source: Watchers of the Sky
“To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!” ScienceFallSpaceWalkingQuittingVoidGod And Science Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.” InspirationalScienceFallMillionsSawsSmartIntelligenceApplesNewton Author:William Hazlitt