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Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we’re so interested in them.
Steven Weinberg1933–2021“Elementary particles and the laws of Physics” in The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (1987)
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19
- Change
- Nature
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter IIn context
- Time
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book One: The Coming of the Martians, Chapter IIn context
- Intelligence
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book Two: The Earth under the Martians, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Life & Death
- Nature
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Time Machine (1895), Chapter XIn context
- Nature
- Time
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XIVIn context
- Nature
There is⁠—though I do not know how there is or why there is⁠—a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Hope
- Nature
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White1899–1985“Coon Tree,” The New Yorker (14 June 1956), The Points of My Compass: Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South (1962); reprinted in Essays of E.B. White (1977)
- Nature
Most cooks when they are young tend to overwork their food to hide their lack of confidence and appreciation for Mother Nature. In time they learn that she is the true artist⁠—we’re just the cooks.
Marco Pierre Whiteborn 1961Marco Pierre White in Hell’s Kitchen (2008)
- Food
- Nature
To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Miracles
- Nature
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!
Walt Whitman1819–1892Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
- Nature
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), 6In context
- Children
- Nature
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars
Walt Whitman1819–1892Song of Myself (1855), 31In context
- Nature
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman1819–1892When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (1865)In context
- Life & Death
- Nature