nature

When I say a thing is true I mean I can’t help believing it - and nothing more.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

- JBS Haldane

The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

- Richard Feynman

We should look for what is, and not for what we think should be.

- Albert Einstein

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

- Sherlock Holmes

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

- Niels Bohr

No one can impart spiritual knowledge unless he has realization. What is meant by realization? It means knowledge based on direct perception.

- Katha Upanishad

Everyone wants to know, but no one wants to pay the price.

- Juvenal

All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

- Ernest Rutherford

Physics is simple only when analyzed locally.

- Charles Misner

It is only slightly overstating the case to say that physics is the study of symmetry.

- PW Anderson

It is though Nature herself is guided by the same kind of criteria of consistency and elegance as those that guide human mathematical thought.

- Roger Penrose

Euclidean geometry is not simply mathematics, it is a (fantastically accurate) physical theory of space.

- Tristan Needham

No matter how determinedly mathematicians ignore the world, they consistently produce the best tools for understanding it.

- John Tierney

Combinatorics is the art of counting without counting.

- Frank Ramsey

In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But humanity certainly won’t ever be able to find out everything in mathematics, because the subject is infinite. That’s why mathematics is really my only interest.

- Paul Erdös

There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

- G. H. Hardy

If anything is certain, it would be mathematics.

- Paul Erdös

How willingly would I have exchanged a full-scale invasion for this shapeless, measureless peril, expressed in charts, curves, and statistics.

- Winston Churchill

The best of science doesn’t consist of mathematical models and experiments, as textbooks make it seem. Those come later. It springs fresh from a more primitive mode of thought, wherein the hunter’s mind weaves ideas from old facts and fresh metaphors and the scrambled crazy images of things recently seen.

- Edward Wilson

Change is the key. One can wear out a particular part of mind by continually using it and tiring it. The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

- Winston Churchill

Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from.

- Edward Robert Harrison

Evolution is phenomenon of populations.

- Edward Wilson

The environment is the theatre and evolution is the play.

- G. Evelyn Hutchinson

The better an ecosystem is known, the less likely it will be destroyed.

- Edward Wilson

There are still surprises for travelers who motor deep into the country and walk into the woods.

- Donald Culross Peattie

The tropical rain forest, though home to tens of thousands of species, is in a sense a counterfeit paradise, a castle of immense biological sophistication built quite literally on a foundation of sand.

- Wade Davis

Water is timeless. Forever new and eternal.

- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas

Every drop of rain on the solid aggregate of minerals is a hammer blow.

- Jack Davis

Eating is an agricultural act.

- Wendell Berry

The great advantage of being a reasonable creature, is that you can find a reason for whatever you want to do.

- Benjamin Franklin

From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork.

- Dumbledore

It’s important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is.

- Richard Feynman

Grey is all theory, evergreen is the tree of life.

- Isaac Deutscher

Science and magic are in their earliest stages indistinguishable.

- Joseph Needham

We cannot command nature except by obeying her.

- Francis Bacon

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

- Will Durant

It is necessary that things should pass away into that from which they are born.

- Anaximander

Space proved to have powers normally ascribed to time.

- Thomas Mann

Instinct is the memory of generations and begins where life itself starts.

- Zina Trotsky

Taoism is the only system of mysticism which the world has ever seen which was not profoundly unscientific.

- Joseph Needham

To neglect man and speculate about nature is to misunderstand the facts of the universe.

- Xunzi

For the primitive mind everything is a miracle, or rather nothing is, and therefore everything is credible and there is nothing either impossible or absurd.

- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

- Donald Rumsfeld

Details are the gateways to new worlds.

- Stephen Jay Gould

Magnetism is just electricity seen from a moving perspective.

- ChatGPT