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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Nature
When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn’t the only thing we need. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary.
Bill Gatesborn 1955How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
- Nature
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
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
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855Letter to Sophie Germain (30 April 1807)
- Courage
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
Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 428, trans. Stopp
- Thinking
A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 609, trans. Stopp
- Beauty
For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream in the same simple way as I dream about the black dots representing towns and villages on a map.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Letter to Theo, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888, as quoted in Windows of the Soul: Experiencing God in New Ways‎ (1996) by Ken Gire, p. 91.
- Nature
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don’t want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.
Jane Goodall1934–2025“An Interview with Jane Goodall”, In Defense of Animals (date unknown)
- Animals
In science, ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.’ I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould1941–2002Often credited to G. K. Chesterton
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
Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.
Stephen Jay Gould1941–2002Eight Little Piggies (1993), “More Light on Leaves”, p. 165
- Ideas
If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
Stephen Jay Gould1941–2002Ever Since Darwin (1977), “The Reverend Thomas’ Dirty Little Planet”, p. 141
- Religion
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658
- Art
- Nature