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If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826
Natural selection, the unconscious, automatic, blind yet essentially non-random process that Darwin discovered, has no purpose in mind. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Blind Watchmaker
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Nature
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
John Dewey1859–1952The Quest for Certainty (1929), Ch. XI
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton1643–1727
Paley’s argument is made with passionate sincerity and is informed by the best biological scholarship of his day, but it is wrong, gloriously and utterly wrong.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941The Blind Watchmaker
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
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
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Troilus and Cressida
- Nature
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912
- Facts
I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait ‘till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
Isaac Newton1643–1727Reply upon being asked how he made his discoveries, as quoted in “Biographia Britannica: Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who Have Flourished in Great Britain from the Earliest Ages Down to the Present Times, Volume 5 “, by W. Innys (1760)
Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J. B. S. Haldane1892–1964“Possible Worlds”, p. 286
I don’t work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art.
Pablo Picasso1881–1973
- Art
- Nature
It is in man’s heart that the life of nature’s spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778Emile (1762).
- Nature
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
- Nature