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Wednesday 21st of January 2026

Aging Right now, we live well, and then we don't live well, and then we die. The most that science seems to offer us is this: We'll live well, and then we'll die. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, May 13, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bullshitters say I’m the father of IVF. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In a 2010 poll, a small majority of Americans revealed that they did not realize that humans and dinosaurs never coexisted. Another showed that almost half of Americans thought the sun revolved around the earth. Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking  © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers In America only 15% of women with graduate degrees in science and engineering, which are in short supply, were employed in their specialism in 2011, compared with 31% of men. And nearly a fifth were out of the labour force, a share twice as high as among similarly qualified men. The Economist, October 5, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers The most covetable trend in China is the most basic: education. China last year produced roughly nine times as many graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics as the US. Financial Times, September 19, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of species that scientists have named after Barack Obama: 7 After the four previous U.S. presidents combined: 1 Harper's Index, December 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Creationism The fundamental difference between religion and science is that the former is all about the celebration of certainty, whereas the latter is all about the quantification of doubt. Creationists understand this instinctively. What they cannot afford to see happen is that people start wondering about their place in the universe, and asking whether the certainties in which they have been raised might not be so certain after all. Henry Gee, The Accidental Species © 2017 Kwiple.com
Evolution In a world of synthetic gene drives, the  border between the human and the natural, between the laboratory and the wild, already deeply blurred, all but dissolves. In such a world, not only do people determine the conditions under which evolution is taking place, people can — again, in principle — determine the outcome.  Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Food If you've ever eaten asparagus, you may have noticed that, soon after ingestion, it imparts a strange, somewhat unpleasant scent to your urine. But then again, you may not have noticed anything at all—and there's a scientific explanation for that too. Andy Brunning, Why Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell? © 2016 Kwiple.com
Global warming Climate scepticism is being driven out by climate cynicism. A sceptic questions the evidence for a given claim and asks whether it is believable. A cynic questions the motives of the people who deploy the evidence, regardless of whether it is believable or not. Any attempt to defend the facts gets presented as evidence that the facts simply suit the interests of the people peddling them. David Runciman © 2017 Kwiple.com
Globalization Ideas, knowledge, science, hospitality, travel – these are the things which should of their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conviently possible, and, above all, let finance be primarily national. John Maynard Keynes, “National Self-Sufficiency” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Ignorance Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. James Clerk Maxwell © 2023 Kwiple.com
Knowledge We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster. Carl Sagan © 2016 Kwiple.com
Politics [T]he discontinuities evident in scientific fields make it quite unlikely that a modern scientist would repair to mediaeval science, for example, either for support or inspiration. This, of course, has no bearing on the alleged superiority of scientific over philosophical inquiry. It is mentioned merely to point out that the tradition of political thought is not so much a tradition of discovery as one of meanings extended over time. Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision © 2017 Kwiple.com
Politics [I]n confronting the world of nature, man might be at once resigned and curious, for this was an order he could neither create nor change. But in the world of politics, a strongly anthropomorphic attitude prevailed: man could be the architect of order. The political world, in short, was amenable to human art. Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision © 2017 Kwiple.com
Politics Politics is more difficult than physics. Albert Einstein © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Scientific consensus about global warming is an elitist conspiracy to impose a world government on freedom-loving people © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Defiance for science  Placard, NYC Science March, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Got the plague? Me neither Thanks science  Placard, Amsterdam Science March, Earth Day, April 22, 2017  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Is science in trouble ? This is the sign Placard, NYC Science March, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Make America scientific again  Placard, NYC Science March, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say No science No progress Know science Know progress  Placard, NYC Science March, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Science not silence  Placard, NYC Science March, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Science saved my life  Placard including a brain scan, NYC Science March, Earth Day, April 22, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Stand up for science We ♥ science Slogans adopted by scientists worldwide to protest Trump's anti-science views © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science For modern Europeans, building an empire was a scientific project, while setting up a scientific discipline was an imperial project. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens © 2016 Kwiple.com
Science For the discipline of science is the only one which gives any assurance that from the same set of facts men will come approximately to the same conclusion. And as the modern world can be civilized only by the effort of innumerable people we have a right to call science the discipline of democracy. Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Science The good thing about science is that it is true whether or not you believe in it. Neil deGrasse Tyson © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science If science can do anything, it is precisely to uproot and destroy any such thing  as a “meaning”! And forget about science or academic knowledge as a path “to God” – these are precisely the forces hostile and foreign to God. No one – whether he admits it or not – can doubt in his heart of hearts that this is what the sciences are. Max Weber, “The Scholar's Work” in Charisma and Disenchantment, translated by Damion Searls © 2020 Kwiple.com
Science In turn, the fragmented design of technology reflects its scientific foundation, for science is divided into disciplines that are largely governed by the notion that complex systems can be understood only if they are first broken into their separate component parts. This reductionist bias has also tended to shield basic science from a concern for real-life problems, such as environmental degradation. Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle © 2022 Kwiple.com
Science Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail. Stephen Jay Gould, “No Science Without Fancy, No Art Without Facts” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Science Righly undertood science is the culture under which people  can live forward in the midst of complexity, and trust life not as something given but as something to be shaped. Custom and authority will work in a simple and unchanging civilization, but in our world only those will conquer who can understand. Walter Lippmann, Drift and Mastery  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Science Science begins with a vision. Scientific thought is fed by the capacity to “see” things differently than they have previously been seen. Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science Science cannot replace politics. When we come to decide on policy, we have to take into account many interests and values, and since there is no scientific way to determine which interests and values are more important, there is no scientific way to decide what we should do. Yuval Harari, Financial Times, February 26, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Science Science is not a democracy; public acclaim is itself no guarantee that any view is the correct one. Henry Gee, The Accidental Species © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science Scientists deliver outcomes favorable to companies, while university research departments court corporate support. Universities and regulators sacrifice full autonomy by signing confidentiality agreements. And academics sometimes double as paid consultants. New York Times, January 2, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Science This is the fundamental difference between the natural sciences and the social sciences; whereas the behavior of material things remains the same whatever men learn about it, the behavior of men is always conditioned by what they know about themselves and the world in which they live. Carl Becker, "The Function of the Social Sciences," in Science and Man, ed. by Ruth N. Anshen © 2022 Kwiple.com
Science education Government-supported early education [in the United States] is funded mainly at the state and local level … and because science courses are the most expensive per student, few schools in relatively poor districts can afford to offer many of them. Students from these districts therefore end up being less prepared for university-level science than are their wealthier peers, many of whom attended well-appointed private schools. Nature, Vol. 537, 22 September 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Scientists During peactime, a scientist belongs to the World, but during wartime he belongs to his his country. Fritz Haber, winner of 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and “father of chemical warfare” © 2020 Kwiple.com
Selfie I sold myself body and soul to Science — a flight from the “I” and “we” to the “it.” Albert Einstein © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will claim that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. Albert Einstein, 1922 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie The reality is I'm not an evolutionary biologist. Bobby Jindal, a Brown University biology major, when asked about his stance on evolution © 2015 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm not a scientist, man. Marco Rubio © 2015 Kwiple.com
Simplicity Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Attributed to Albert Einstein, but more likely a paraphrase  © 2016 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say Science leads you to killing people. Ben Stein © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Only I can Make Science Great Again Donald Trump portrayed by @ScientistTrump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Space exploration For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science! Donald Trump, 10:38 AM – 7 Jun 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not? If that's true, why are there still apes? Think about it. Herschel Walker, March 13, 2022, while frontrunner for the Georgia Republican Senate nomination in 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The four corners of deceit:  government, academia, science and media. Those institutions are now corrupt and exist by virtue of deceit. That's how they promulgate themselves; it is how they prosper. Rush Limbaugh © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Science has become a home for displaced socialists and communists. Rush Limbaugh © 2022 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say There is a very scientific word for this: it’s called summer.  It’s no hotter right now than it’s ever been. I’ve been in this heat all my life in July and August as a football coach. This world’s not heating up, come on. Tommy Tuberville © 2023 Kwiple.com