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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
- Faith
- Nature
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part I, Episode 1In context
- Nature
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part III, Episode 17 (2 of 3)In context
- Nature
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
Carl Jung1875–1961
We actually have a candidate for the mind of God. The mind of God we believe is cosmic music, the music of strings resonating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. That is the mind of God.
Michio Kakuborn 1947Math is the Mind of God (29 December 2012)
- God
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.
Michio Kakuborn 1947Hyperspace (1995), Ch.12 Colliding Universes
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Translated by Lewis White Beck
- Morality
- Nature
The poetry of earth is never dead.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
- Nature
- Poetry
To one who has been long in city pent,
’Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
- Nature
Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down
John Keats1795–1821Ode to a Nightingale (1819)In context
- Life & Death
- Nature
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
John Keats1795–1821To Autumn (1820)In context
- Nature
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art!
John Keats1795–1821Bright Star (1838)In context
- Nature
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963To the Moon (1962)
- Motivation & Goals
I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
Johannes Kepler1571–1630Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted by Steven G. Krantz, Brian E. Blank, Calculusː Multivariable (2006) p. 126.
- Life & Death
Geometry has two great treasures: one is the Theorem of Phythagoras, the other the division of a line in extreme and mean ratio. The first we can compare to a mass of gold; the other we may call a precious jewel.
Johannes Kepler1571–1630As quoted in Karl Fink, A Brief History of Mathematics (1903), tr. W. W. Beman and D. E. Smith