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Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is a part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Nature
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing1912–1954Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954); reprinted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma (Vintage edition 1992), p. 513.
- Religion
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman1918–1988Rogers Commission Report (1986)
- Technology
Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“Flower in the Crannied Wall” (1869)
- God
- Nature
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 universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941River out of Eden (1995), pp. 131–132
- Good & Evil
There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.
Richard Feynman1918–1988What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988), “The Making of a Scientist,” p. 11: video
- Beauty
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
Wendell Berry1934–2026Part of an endorsement statement for The Dying of the Trees (1997) by Charles E. Little
- Nature
- Politics
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
In nature there is nothing melancholy.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, ll. 13-22 (1798)
- Nature
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Scientific Outlook (1931)
It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!
Claude Monet1840–1926Letter to Frédéric Bazille (15 July 1864)
- Art
- Nature
All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced.
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855March 14, 1824. As quoted in Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 360
Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter.
Jim Morrison1943–1971The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), “The Lords: Notes on Vision”
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude; she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).
Stephen Jay Gould1941–2002Bully for Brontosaurus (1991), Prologue, pp. 16–17
- Nature