Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
