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Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Comedy
- Nature
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake1757–1827
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
William Blake1757–1827Auguries of Innocence (c. 1803)In context
- Nature
- Time
Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.
PBPaul Boese
- Motivation & Goals
- Nature
Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.
Niels Bohr1885–1962
We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.
Niels Bohr1885–1962In his first meeting with Werner Heisenberg in early summer 1920, in response to questions on the nature of language, as reported in Discussions about Language (1933); quoted in Defense Implications of International Indeterminacy (1972) by Robert J. …
- Poetry
Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.
Niels Bohr1885–1962In a 1952 conversation with Heisenberg and Pauli in Copenhagen; quoted in Heisenberg, Werner, Physics and Beyond. (New York: Harper & Row, 1971) p. 206.
Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience.
Niels Bohr1885–1962“The Unity of Human Knowledge” (October 1960)
- Philosophy
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
Niels Bohr1885–1962Said to Wolfgang Pauli at Columbia University (1958), as reported by Freeman Dyson, ‘Innovation in Physics’, Scientific American (September 1958)
- Ideas
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Omar Bradley1893–1981Armistice Day speech (10 November 1948, in Boston, MA), published in Omar Bradley’s Collected Writings, Volume 1 (1967: 589)
- Morality
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
Wernher von Braun1912–1977From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
- God
One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
Wernher von Braun1912–1977From a letter to the California State board of Education (14 September 1972)
- God
One of the most disconcerting issues of our time lies in the fact that modern science, along with miracle drugs and communications satellites, has also produced nuclear bombs.
Wernher von Braun1912–1977Responsible Scientific Investigation and Application (1976)
- War & Peace
Spring is noticed, if at all
By people sitting in railway trains.
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956“Concerning spring” [Über das Frühjahr] (1928), Uhu, Berlin, IV, 6 (March 1928); trans. Christopher Middleton in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 158
- Nature
I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
- Nature