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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
That's home · Carl Sagan
Book note / Science, History
A Brief History of Time · Stephen Hawking
Book note / Science
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry · Neil deGrasse Tyson
Book note / Science, History
On the Origin of Species · Charles Darwin
Book note / Science, Philosophy
Pale Blue Dot · Carl Sagan
Book note / Science
The Elegant Universe · Brian Greene
Book note / Science, History
The First Three Minutes · Steven Weinberg
Book note / Science, Philosophy
The Selfish Gene · Richard Dawkins
Book note / Science, Philosophy
What Is Life? · Erwin Schrödinger
“If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason, for then we would know the mind of God.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
The mind of God · Stephen Hawking
Book note / Science, History
Cosmos · Carl Sagan
Book note / Science, Philosophy
The Grand Design · Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
“The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
Comprehensible and pointless · Steven Weinberg
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”Quotation / Science
Grandeur in this view of life · Charles Darwin
“We are survival machines, robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
Survival machines · Richard Dawkins
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”Quotation / Science
In the light of evolution · Theodosius Dobzhansky
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.”Quotation / Science
Do not fool yourself · Richard Feynman
“Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics.”Quotation / Science, History
The grand book · Galileo Galilei
“The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
The mystery of comprehensibility · Albert Einstein
“I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.”Quotation / Science, History
Not playing at dice · Albert Einstein
“We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy
The present state of the universe · Pierre-Simon Laplace
“I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.”Quotation / Science
Nobody understands quantum mechanics · Richard Feynman
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”Quotation / Science, Philosophy, History
Atoms and the void · Attributed to Democritus
“Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the Earth.”Quotation / Science, History
A place to stand · Attributed to Archimedes
“Philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.”Quotation / Philosophy, Science
Philosophy is dead · Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”Quotation / Science
Extraordinary evidence · Carl Sagan
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”Quotation / Science, History
Shoulders of giants · Isaac Newton
Study / Learning, Science
Spaced repetition over twelve months: a self-study
“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.”Quotation / Science, Learning
To be understood · Attributed to Marie Curie
Lesson / Science, Learning
Statistics without the fear
Book note / Science, History
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions · Thomas S. Kuhn
Study / Design, Science
How layout changes reading comprehension
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