Quotes About Topics

She said it casually, but it was like a casual stroke with a shiv. (p.140)

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they're crazy** some are dumb, too, but that's another story.

Sci-fi doesn't show me much about alien's nature but shows a lot about North American nature.

...and now over to our foriegn allegory correspondant, Barv Tweezman." ~The Shielding of Mortimer Townes

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

There's a funny smell around here, anyway. I think it's mediocrity.

Look, I said halfheartedly. Another one of those tumbleweeds made out of old hair weaves. Tumbleweave, said J.Lo.

As far as pets go, a cat is a nice on to have.

Regarding stickyfish teams, I favor the Bigfield Fighting Koobish.

gravely. A larger allocation of fighters was impossible.

These are weighty topics, and the brief fables that address them do not claim to solve the problems that they embody, but then neither do they simply brush such problems aside, pretending that they do not exist.

You can change "words" in a marketing program, but heaven help you if you try to change a

There are even a handful who like to collect biological specimens. Those with money collect live ones. Those without money become scientists.

that slimy sycophant Hux

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]