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You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
- Knowledge
One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part I, Chapter VIn context
- Ideas
- Nature
Winwood Reade is good upon the subject,” said Holmes. “He remarks that, while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Sign of the Four (1890), Chapter XIn context
- Thinking
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant1885–1981“What is Civilization?” Ladies’ Home Journal, LXIII (January, 1946)
- Nature
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Will Durant1885–1981The Story of Philosophy (1926)
- Philosophy
Science without philosophy, facts without perspective and valuation, cannot save us from havoc and despair. Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant1885–1981The Story of Philosophy (1926)
- Philosophy
- Wisdom
He that planteth a tree is the servant of God,
He provideth a kindness for many generations,
And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
Henry van Dyke1852–1933The Friendly Trees.
- Nature
Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1: In Praise of Diversity
- Religion
The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020“Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society”, in Edge (8 August 2007)
- Knowledge
We stand, in a manner of speaking, midway between the unpredictability of atoms and the unpredictability of God.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Progress In Religion (2000)
- God
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 2: Butterflies and Superstrings, p. 14
- Nature
To talk about the end of science is just as foolish as to talk about the end of religion. Science and religion are both still close to their beginnings, with no ends in sight.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Progress In Religion (2000)
- Religion
It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020“Progress in Religion”, Templeton Prize address (May 2000)
- Philosophy
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Imagined Worlds (1997)
- Nature
An awareness of our smallness may help to redeem us from the arrogance which is the besetting sin of the scientists.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 1: In Praise of Diversity
- Pride