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Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.
George Sand1804–1876François le Champi, Introduction (1848); Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif {New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 17
- Art
- Nature
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Nature (1836), Language
- Nature
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.
Louis Pasteur1822–1895Letter (December 1851); as quoted in The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History (2004) by John M. Barry
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant1885–1981“What is Civilization?” Ladies’ Home Journal, LXIII (January, 1946)
- Nature
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 218
- Food
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
Carl Sagan1934–1996The Backbone of Night [Episode 7], 0 min 40 sec
- Hope
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
- Wisdom
It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
Pliny the Elder20–79Naturalis Historia, Book VII, sec. 1.
- 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
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
Edward Abbey1927–1989“The Heart of Noon”, p. 116
- Nature
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
- Change
- Nature
Men became scientific because they expected law in Nature; and they expected law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Miracles (1947), Ch. 3: “The Cardinal Difficulty of Naturalism”
- God
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature’s means.
Paul Gauguin1848–1903The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 39: ‘Huysmans and Redon’, (written in 1889, published 1953)
- Art
- Nature
Scientists try to eliminate their false theories, they try to let them die in their stead. The believer⁠—whether animal or man⁠—perishes with his false beliefs.
Karl Popper1902–1994Epistemology Without A Knowing Subject (1967)
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White1899–1985“Coon Tree,” The New Yorker (14 June 1956), The Points of My Compass: Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South (1962); reprinted in Essays of E.B. White (1977)
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