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I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Michele Besso (8 October 1952)
- Facts
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
Mark Twain1835–1910New England Weather, speech to the New England Society (December 22, 1876)
- Comedy
- Nature
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to high school student Barbara Lee Wilson (7 January 1943), Einstein Archives 42-606
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin1819–1900The Stones of Venice (1853), Volume III
- Facts
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
Niels Bohr1885–1962In a 1952 conversation with Heisenberg and Pauli in Copenhagen; quoted in Heisenberg, Werner, Physics and Beyond. (New York: Harper & Row, 1971) p. 206.
To one who has been long in city pent,
’Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
- Nature
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
Albert Einstein1879–1955First sentence of “Maxwells Einfluss auf die Entwicklung der Auffassung des Physikalisch-Realen”
The more precise the measurement of position, the more imprecise the measurement of momentum, and vice versa.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Initial statement of the Uncertainty principle in “Über den anschaulichen Inhalt der quantentheoretischen Kinematik und Mechanik” in Zeitschrift für Physik, 43 (1927)
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walking (June 1862)
- Nature
Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important, simply because of his new-found power to destroy it.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Speech at Scripps College (June 1962)
- Nature
Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
Carl Sagan1934–1996The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 1: The Most Precious Thing
- Health
The world becomes full of organisms that have what it takes to become ancestors. That, in a sentence, is Darwinism.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941River out of Eden (1995)
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Caxtoniana (1862), Essay X. Hints on Mental Culture
- Reading
What a book a Devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!
Charles Darwin1809–1882Letter to J.D. Hooker, 13 July 1856
- Nature
Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 417, trans. Stopp
- Knowledge