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The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter IXIn context
- Nature
Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.
Stephen Crane1871–1900The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Hope
- Nature
The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature.
Michael Crichton1942–2008Environmentalism as a Religion (2003)
- Experience
- Nature
Science is nothing more than a method of inquiry. The method says an assertion is valid — and merits universal acceptance — only if it can be independently verified.
Michael Crichton1942–2008Testimony before the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (28 September 2005)
Because we all share this small planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. That is not just a dream, but a necessity.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935Nobel lecture (1989)
- Nature
- War & Peace
My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (2005)
- Religion
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
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.
Charles Darwin1809–1882Letter to J.D. Hooker, 29 March 1863
What a book a Devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horridly cruel works of nature!
Charles Darwin1809–1882Letter to J.D. Hooker, 13 July 1856
- Nature
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
Charles Darwin1809–1882“Notebook C” (1838), pp. 196–197
- Pride
How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!
Charles Darwin1809–1882Letter to Henry Fawcett (18 September 1861), in Life of Henry Fawcett (1885) by Leslie Stephen, pp. 100-101