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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up.
Nikola Tesla1856–1943“Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World”, Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).
- Nature
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (30 August 1856)
- Nature
Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walking (June 1862)
- Nature
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walking (June 1862)
- Nature
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (3 April 1852)
- Animals
- Nature
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
- Life & Death
- Nature
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
Alan Turing1912–1954Epigram to Robin Gandy (1954); reprinted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: the Enigma (Vintage edition 1992), p. 513.
- Religion
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two faculties, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
Alan Turing1912–1954“Systems of Logic Based on Ordinals,” section 11: The purpose of ordinal logics (1938), published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, series 2, vol. 45 (1939)
- Thinking
One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.
Mark Twain1835–1910New England Weather, speech to the New England Society (December 22, 1876)
- Comedy
- Nature
It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter XIXIn context
- Nature
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Neil deGrasse Tysonborn 1958Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (2017), epigram, p. 13
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
Neil deGrasse Tysonborn 1958Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO, 4 February 2011)
- Truth & Lies
We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out — and we have only just begun.
Neil deGrasse Tysonborn 1958“The Greatest Story Ever Told”, in Natural History Magazine (March 1998) · “The Genesis of the Universe” narrated video at Britannica.com
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine1901–1980