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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado (August 29, 1910); in The New Nationalism (1910), p. 52
- Nature
- Responsibility
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894In the Bleak Midwinter (1872)In context
- Christmas
- Nature
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Who Has Seen the Wind? (1872)In context
- Nature
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling
The wind is passing thro’.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Who Has Seen the Wind? (1872)In context
- Nature
It is in man’s heart that the life of nature’s spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778Emile (1762).
- Nature
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 1, LXXI
- Poetry
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin1819–1900The Stones of Venice (1853), Volume III
- Facts
Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918), Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
- Prayer
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Analysis of Mind (1921), Lecture I: Recent Criticisms of “Consciousness”
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970A History of Western Philosophy (1945)
- Knowledge
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
- Knowledge
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell, March, 1912, as quoted in Gaither’s Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2012), p. 1318
Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Scientific Outlook (1931)
We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That’s a clear prescription for disaster.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Bringing Science Down to Earth (1994), co-authored with Anne Kalosh, in Hemispheres (October 1994), p. 99
- Technology