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Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Alan Valentine1901–1980
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
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
Carl Jung1875–1961
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper.
- Nature
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
- Nature
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Charles Darwin1809–1882
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections,⁠—a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin1809–1882Letter to T.H. Huxley, 9 July 1857, More Letters of Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin and A.C. Seward, editors (1903) volume I, chapter II: “Evolution, 1844-1858”, page 98
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
Charles Darwin1809–1882Autobiography (1958), page 70
I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
Charles Darwin1809–1882Recollection by E. Ray Lankester, from his essay “Charles Robert Darwin” in C.D. Warner, editor, Library of the World’s Best Literature: Ancient and Modern (R.S. Peale & J.A. Hill, New York, 1896) volume 2, pages 4835-4393, at page 4391
It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Descent of Man (1871) volume I, “Introduction”, p. 3
One may say “the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.”
Albert Einstein1879–1955From the article “Physics and Reality” (March 1936), reprinted in Out of My Later Years (1956)
Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays (1918), Ch. 5: Mathematics and the Metaphysicians
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Religion
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Resuscitatio (1657), Proposition touching Amendment of Laws
- Reading
What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance the most astounding? That question is this⁠—Is man an ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech to the Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (1929), p. 108
- Religion