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The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Jules Verne1828–1905Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), Part One, Chapter XIn context
- Nature
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
Gore Vidal1925–2012“Gods and Greens” (1989)
- Nature
Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Nature
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Human subtlety…will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. J. P. Richter, No. 837
- Nature
Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. J. P. Richter, I: Prolegomena
- Reading
I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can’t stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Bennington College address (1970)
- War & Peace
What we won’t do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of “true scientific discourse.” It isn’t.
Jimmy Walesborn 1966Reply to a Change.org petition (March 2014), quoted by Boing Boing
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walkerborn 1944The Color Purple (1982)
- God
- Nature
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Andy Warhol1928–1987In: “Inside Andy Warhol,” by Andy Warhol. Cosmopolitan, 179, Sept. 1975, p. 189.
- Nature
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.
LWLyall Watson1939–2008
Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals.
Alan Watts1915–1973The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966), Inside Information
- Nature
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.
Steven Weinberg1933–2021Physics Today (November 2005) page 35
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Steven Weinberg1933–2021The First Three Minutes (1977), Epilogue
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg1933–2021The First Three Minutes (1977; second edition 1993) (1993), Epilogue, p. 155