To save and maintain the beauty of nature; there will be a few people worth to be left alive.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: beauty nature save worth alive maintain
We must not wait for favours from Nature; our task is to wrest them from her.
Ivan MichurinTags: science optimism nature discovery task favour
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Antoine LavoisierTags: science truth reason nature trust naturalism facts scientific-method observation chemistry experiment scientist submit chemist father-of-modern-chemistry
Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...
{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}
Tags: shakespeare nature service william-shakespeare king-lear motto goddess scientist gauss natural-laws
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.About the orchids of that place we knew very little. About flies and beetles almost nothing, fungi nothing, most kinds of organisms nothing. Five thousand kinds of bacteria might be found in a pinch of soil, and about them we knew absolutely nothing. This was wilderness in the sixteenth-century sense, as it must have formed in the minds of the Portuguese explorers, its interior still largely unexplored and filled with strange, myth-engendering plants and animals. From such a place the pious naturalist would send long respectful letters to royal patrons about the wonders of the new world as testament to the glory of God. And I thought: there is still time to see this land in such a manner.
Edward O. WilsonTags: nature wilderness biodiversity
Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.
Melvin SchwartzTags: science nature language discovery math abstraction mathematics nobel-laureate models scientist insights
The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.
Leon M. LedermanTags: science reductionism nature physics atoms nobel-laureate cern particle-physics atomic-theory natural-laws atomism
A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning’s flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.
Henry David ThoreauTags: words reading books knowledge nature literature perfection
It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.
Evelyn WaughTags: nature civilization tradition modernization commercialism
The Kikuyu, when left to themselves, do not bury their dead, but leave them above ground for the hyenas and vultures to deal with. The custom had always appealed to me, I thought that it would be pleasant thing to be laid out to the sun and the stars, and to be so promptly, neatly, and openly picked and cleansed; to be made one with Nature and become a common component of a landscape.
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