Freeman Dyson on nature

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond our comprehension.

The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

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