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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny…’
Isaac Asimov1920–1992
Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers…and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn’t even ask for erasers.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992
- Philosophy
The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can’t get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992General sources, Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988)
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
- Wisdom
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
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
We must change our diet. The planet can’t support billions of meat-eaters.
David Attenboroughborn 1926“Go vegetarian to save wildlife and the planet, Sir David Attenborough urges”. The Independent (26 August 2020)
- Food
- Nature
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
This is now our planet, run by humankind for humankind. There is little left for the rest of the living world.
David Attenboroughborn 1926David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (Netflix, 2020)
- Nature
Our imprint is now truly global. Our impact now truly profound. Our blind assault on the planet has finally come to alter the very fundamentals of the living world.
David Attenboroughborn 1926David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (Netflix, 2020)
- Nature
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
W. H. Auden1907–1973The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
- Art
Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.
Marcus Aurelius121–180Meditations, Book IV, 23
- Nature
- Time
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
- Change
- Nature
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Resuscitatio (1657), Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
- Reading
But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this — that men despair and think things impossible.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Novum Organum (1620), Book I, Aphorism 92