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Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.” (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
- Knowledge
I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe — and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.” (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things; and acted according to Nature; whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable.
William Penn1644–1718Some Fruits of Solitude (1693), no. 9
- Nature
To-day I made the ascent of the highest mountain in this region, which is not improperly called Ventosum. My only motive was the wish to see what so great an elevation had to offer.
Petrarch1304–1374Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro (26 April 1336), “The Ascent of Mount Ventoux”, tr. James Harvey Robinson (1898)
- Nature
The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921–2021The World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, (1970).
- Children
- Nature
I don’t work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Art
- Nature
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
Max Planck1858–1947The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics (1931)
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
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
Plato429–349 BCThe RepublicIn context
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (c. 375 BC), Book VIIIn context
- Clever Jabs
It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.
Pliny the Elder20–79Naturalis Historia, Book VII, sec. 1.
- Nature
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)In context
- Nature
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912
- Facts
Scientists believe there is a hierarchy of facts and that among them may be made a judicious choice. They are right, since otherwise there would be no science…
Henri Poincaré1854–1912The Value of Science (1905)
- Facts
The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
- Facts