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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10: Research, p. 143
- Knowledge
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962)
- Nature
ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
Michael Faraday1791–1867Laboratory journal entry #10,040 (19 March 1849); published in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, edited by Henry Bence Jones , p. 248
My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019Thirst (2006), “Messenger”
- Love
- Nature
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.
Max Planck1858–1947The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics (1931)
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913)
- Change
- Nature
The poetry of earth is never dead.
John Keats1795–1821Poems (1817)
- Nature
- Poetry
Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1838
- Art
- Nature
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Letters and Social Aims (1876), Poetry and Imagination
There is no evil in the atom, only in men’s souls.
Adlai Stevenson II1900–1965Speech in Hartford, Connecticut (18 September 1952)
- Good & Evil
The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law (26 February 1937)
- Nature
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870)
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 1, LXXI
- Poetry
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Journal (30 August 1856)
- Nature
The frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Frost at Midnight, l. 1 (1798)In context
- Nature