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Science is the poetry of reality.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Enemies of Reason, “Slaves to Superstition” [1.01], 13 August 2007, timecode 00:38:16ff
- Poetry
Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
Daniel Dennett1942–2024Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness (2005), p. 2
Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
Daniel Dennett1942–2024New York Times, letter to the editor (26 August 2009)
- God
The methods of science aren’t foolproof, but they are indefinitely perfectible. Just as important: there is a tradition of criticism that enforces improvement whenever and wherever flaws are discovered.
Daniel Dennett1942–2024Postmodernism and truth (1998)
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
John Dewey1859–1952The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper.
- Nature
There’s a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886There’s a certain Slant of light (1890)In context
- Emotion
- Nature
This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,⁠—
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886This is my letter to the World (1890)In context
- Nature
- Writing
I taste a liquor never brewed,
From tankards scooped in pearl;
Not all the vats upon the Rhine
Yield such an alcohol!
Emily Dickinson1830–1886I taste a liquor never brewed (1861)In context
- Nature
In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.
Denis Diderot1713–1784On the Interpretation of Nature (1753), No. 50
One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.
Paul Dirac1902–1984The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature (1963)
- God
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one’s equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
Paul Dirac1902–1984The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature (1963)
- Beauty
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
Paul Dirac1902–1984The scientific work of Georges Lemaître (1968), P.A.M
- Ideas
What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this⁠—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech to the Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 108
- Religion
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context