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We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community’s vocabulary.
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Testimony to a U.S House of Representatives subcommittee, on NIH funding for the year 2000 (14 April 1999)
After my death, the molecules of my being will return to the earth and sky. They came from the stars. I am of the stars.
Charles Lindbergh1902–1974Autobiography of Values (1978)
- Life & Death
- Nature
Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.” (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
- Knowledge
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
Michael Faraday1791–1867Letter to John Tyndall (19 April 1851), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday, letter 2411
- Nature
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
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun.
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923Entry in her journal (10 October 1922) which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind
- Health
- 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
To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol — a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
John Maynard Keynes1883–1946The New Statesman and Nation, 21 October 1933, published in Collected Writings volume xxviii pages 21-22
The land knows you, even when you are lost.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 36
- Nature
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Neil deGrasse Tysonborn 1958Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017), epigram, p. 13
It is only through science and art that civilization is of value.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912The Value of Science (1905), Ch. 11: Science and Reality
- Art
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
Donald Knuthborn 1938The Art of Computer Programming (1968–2011), Vol. II, Seminumerical Algorithms
- Computers
If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you’re in big trouble.
Robert Sapolskyborn 1957Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences (2001)
- Comedy
The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
Cormac McCarthy1933–2023Stella Maris (2022)
- Life & Death
- Nature
We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters.
David Attenboroughborn 1926“Go vegetarian to save wildlife and the planet, Sir David Attenborough urges”. The Independent (26 August 2020)
- Food
- Nature