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When it comes to climate change, I know innovation isn’t the only thing we need. But we cannot keep the earth livable without it. Techno-fixes are not sufficient, but they are necessary.
Bill Gatesborn 1955How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (2021)
- Nature
The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
Karl Marx1818–1883Addenda, “Relative and Absolute Surplus Value” in Economic Manuscripts (1861-63)
- Economics
Scientists believe there is a hierarchy of facts and that among them may be made a judicious choice. They are right, since otherwise there would be no science…
Henri Poincaré1854–1912The Value of Science (1905)
- Facts
The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincaré1854–1912Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
- Facts
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956Minority Report : H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956), 412
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
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.
Richard Dawkinsborn 1941River out of Eden (1995)
- Anti-Religion
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
Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Neil Armstrong1930–2012First words from the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle after guiding the craft to a landing on the Moon at 4:17pm EDT (20 July 1969)
Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 5e
Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I, section 3.
- Nature
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Jonathan Swift1667–1745Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Voyage to Laputa, Ch. 5In context
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