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We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.
James Clerk Maxwell1831–1879“On Physical Lines of Force”, Part III (1862)
The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.
Cormac McCarthy1933–2023Stella Maris (2022)
- Life & Death
- Nature
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan1911–1980Lecture “Living in an Acoustic World”, University of South Florida (1970)
- Nature
- Responsibility
Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
- Nature
- Thinking
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter LXXIn context
- Nature
- Philosophy
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Nature
- Time
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Minority Report : H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 412
Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
James A. Michener1907–1997Space (1982), Ch. 6
- Technology
How sweet to be a Cloud
Floating in the Blue!
A. A. Milne1882–1956Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter IIn context
- Nature
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
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L. M. Montgomery1874–1942Anne of Green Gables (1908), Chapter XVIIn context
- Happiness
- Nature
’Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone
Thomas Moore1779–1852The Last Rose of Summer (1813)In context
- Age
- Nature
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
- Technology
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris1928–2026
- Anti-Religion
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.
Desmond Morris1928–2026The Naked Ape (1967), Introduction, p. 9
- Animals