“Science Fun Fact: The only proof that you actually have a body comes from the body itself. It's all a trust game.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”— Marie Curie, amazon.com
“Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Men can never be free, because they're weak, corrupt, worthless... and restless. The people believe in authority. They've grown tired of waiting for miracle or mystery. Science is their religion.”— David Duchovny, Chris Carter, Cigarette Smoking Man, William B. Davis, imdb.com
“Although women as a group have made substantial gains in wages, educational attainment, and prestige over the past three decades, the economists Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson have shown that women are less happy today than their predecessors were in 1972, both in absolute terms and relative to…”— Anne-Marie Slaughter, theatlantic.com
“Sometimes you hear that really nice guys get hot girls. But I found that really nice guys get really nice girls. Being nice is not really buying you any currency in the attractiveness realm. If the guys are hot, too, then sure, they can get a hot girl.’”— Elizabeth McClintock, theatlantic.com
“In real-life dating studies, which get closer to genuine intentions, physical attractiveness and earning potential strongly predict romantic attraction.”— James Hamblin, theatlantic.com
“Reaching out to evangelicals doesn’t mean you have to become pro-life. It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are. The second thing is that there’s a religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party. It’s tied to the demographic…”— Michael Wear, theatlantic.com
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually ‘grasp’ reality.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, a…”— John Green, amazon.com
“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, reddit.com
“Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that w…”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, huffingtonpost.com