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Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla1856–1943“Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World” in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
Georg Cantor1845–1918Doctoral thesis (De aequationibus secundi gradus indeterminatis, 1867)
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Ode: Intimations of Immortality (1807), “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (1807)In context
- Nature
And ‘t is my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.
William Wordsworth1770–1850Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines written in Early Spring
- Nature
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Acceptance speech of the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1952) for The Sea Around Us
- Writing
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir1838–1914My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869, Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 248
- Nature
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
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir1838–1914John of the Mountains (1938), journal for July 1890, p. 313
- Nature
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 95
- Clever Jabs
As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953from interviews and conversations (2015)
- Nature
- Thanksgiving
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.
Alice Walkerborn 1944The Color Purple (1982)
- God
- Nature
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923)
- Animals
- Nature
There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
John Calvin1509–1564Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
- Happiness
- Nature
It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
- Prayer
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike⁠—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Hans Muehsam (9 July 1951), Einstein Archives 38-408, quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) by Alice Calaprice, p. 404