Memorable science quotes.

[CraigD]

It was very different, when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene had changed. The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded. I was required to exchange chimeras of boundless grandeur for realities of little worth.

—Victor Frankenstein, character in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

[CraigD]

... While many today believe that the "inner" world of introspective experience is somehow less "real" than the external, I suggest, by my work, that inner experience (i.e. dreams, hallucinations, etc. etc.) have a reality and an influence that is just as much a part of the world as any other component. Our thoughts are in fact electro-chemical events, which can be measured and objectively verified by external measuring devices. Our thoughts and dreams are real. The word "art", traced to its origin, means "to fit together or join." I see the task of art in my contemporary time and place to be to mend the fracturing of our perceptions of external and internal reality, to bring about a realization that consciousness pervades all things, and that the universe emanates from within us, as much as we are emanations, or expressions, of this same universe.

 

- visual artist, musician, and filmmaker Justin Duerr, from his

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