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I’ll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992The Roving Mind (1983), p. 43
- Facts
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Omar Bradley1893–1981Armistice Day speech (10 November 1948, in Boston, MA), published in Omar Bradley’s Collected Writings, Volume 1 (1967: 589)
- Morality
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)
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
Rachel Carson1907–1964The Sense of Wonder (1965)
- Nature
When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become.
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953Braiding Sweetgrass (2013), p. 31
- Money
- Nature
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams1952–2001Douglas Adams. The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time. New York: Random House, 2002, 135–136.
- Comedy
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don’t.
Douglas Adams1952–2001Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
- Comedy
We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
Douglas Adams1952–2001Speech at The University of California, videoed by UCTV (May 2001).
- Nature
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Journal (25 May 1843)
- Nature
Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Dwight Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (1953)
- War & Peace
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (3 April 1852)
- Animals
- Nature
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Karl Popper1902–1994Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963), Ch. 1 “Science: Conjectures and Refutations”, Section VII
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.
Karl Popper1902–1994The Open Universe: An Argument for Indeterminism (1992), p. 44
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992The Roving Mind (1983), Ch. 25
- Art
It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 159
- Knowledge