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We may find illustrations of the highest doctrines of science in games and gymnastics, in travelling by land and by water, in storms of the air and of the sea, and wherever there is matter in motion.
James Clerk Maxwell1831–1879Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics, Cambridge (October 1871), in The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, ed. W. D. Niven (1890; Dover repr. 2003), vol. 2, p. 243
I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial⁠—largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox⁠—in other words,⁠—all the things I love the most.
Luis Buñuel1900–1983Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the substitution of the new views for the old.
Vladimir Lenin1870–1924What is to be Done? (1902)
- Ideas
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
Scientific and technological “solutions” which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.
ESE. F. Schumacher1911–1977Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 31.
- Technology
What is Art, monsieur, but Nature concentrated?
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850Lost Illusions, Part II: A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839), tr. Ellen Marriage, ch. I
- Art
- Nature
The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.
Edward Abbey1927–1989The Journey Home (1977), “Shadows from the Big Woods”, p. 225
- Nature
If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
Edward Abbey1927–1989A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
- Nature
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
Steve Ballmerborn 1956“Ballmer Boosts Harvard Computer Science Faculty” (13 November 2014)
- Computers
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
James A. Michener1907–1997Space (1982), Ch. 6
- Technology
In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur1822–1895Lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854)
- Luck
Spring is noticed, if at all
By people sitting in railway trains.
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956“Concerning spring” [Über das Frühjahr] (1928), Uhu, Berlin, IV, 6 (March 1928); trans. Christopher Middleton in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 158
- Nature
I think the Moon is a world like this one, and the Earth is its moon.
Cyrano de Bergerac1619–1655The Other World (1657)
There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.
Samuel Beckett1906–1989Molloy (1951)
- Nature
Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Nature