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For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
Wallace Stevens1879–1955The Snow Man (1921)In context
- Nature
- Philosophy
There is no evil in the atom, only in men’s souls.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Speech in Hartford, Connecticut (18 September 1952)
- Good & Evil
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XIVIn context
- Knowledge
It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.
LSLuther Sutherland
- God
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Voyage to Laputa, Ch. 5In context
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
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 95
- Clever Jabs
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Sara Teasdale1884–1933There Will Come Soft Rains (1918)In context
- Life & Death
- Nature
Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892“Flower in the Crannied Wall” (1869)
- God
- Nature
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring’d with the azure world, he stands
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Eagle (1851)In context
- Animals
- Nature
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Break, Break, Break (1842)In context
- Emotion
- Nature
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892The Eagle (1851)In context
- Animals
- Nature
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla1856–1943“Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
Nikola Tesla1856–1943“Experiments With Alternate Currents Of High Potential And High Frequency” (February 1892)
- Technology
To cause at will the birth and death of matter would be man’s grandest deed, which would give him the mastery of physical creation, make him fulfill his ultimate destiny.
Nikola Tesla1856–1943Man’s Greatest Achievement (1908; 1930)