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We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.
Neil deGrasse Tysonborn 1958“The Greatest Story Ever Told”, in Natural History Magazine (March 1998) · “The Genesis of the Universe” narrated video at Britannica.com
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck1858–1947Where Is Science Going? (1932), tr. James Murphy, Epilogue, p. 217
- Nature
No matter how seemingly unconnected with human affairs or remote from human interests a newly-discovered truth may appear to be, time and genius will some day make it minister to human welfare.
Horace Mann1796–1859Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867), p. 185
The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times.
Upton Sinclair1878–1968The Profits of Religion (1918)
The methods of science aren’t foolproof, but they are indefinitely perfectible. Just as important: there is a tradition of criticism that enforces improvement whenever and wherever flaws are discovered.
Daniel Dennett1942–2024Postmodernism and truth (1998)
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. This is the story of how a few of them came to be as they are.
David Attenboroughborn 1926Life on Earth (1979), Opening narration
- Animals
- Nature
When a politician, on a subject implicating science — hard science, economic science, social science — says, ‘The debate is over,’ you may be sure of two things. It’s that the debate is raging and he’s losing it.
George Willborn 1941Discussion, Fox News Sunday, February 16, 2014
- Debate
- Politics
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 13.
- Nature
As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 318
- Nature
We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads — but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Episode 1: “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean” (1980)
- Truth & Lies
In the world’s audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeam and the stars of midnight.
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941The Gardener (1913), 74
- Nature
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up.
Nikola Tesla1856–1943“Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World”, Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020“Progress in Religion”, Templeton Prize address (May 2000)
- Philosophy
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Strength to Love (1963), Ch. 1: A tough mind and a tender heart
- Religion
What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
Richard Feynman1918–1988The Feynman Lectures on Physics, vol. I (1963), lecture 3, “The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences”, p. 3-6
- Poetry