Everybody should be ashamed who uses the wonders of science and engineering without thinking and having mentally realized not more of it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Botany, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I got into magic because I got into alchemy. Which I got into because I was into chemistry, which I was learning… — Drew Hayes Copy Share Image
It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany… — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“A book about books is like a poem about poetry: Books are knowledge, paid for, all. Readers - horses in a stall.… — Will Advise Copy Share Image
“The investigation described in the subsequent pages bears close relation to three sciences. It was approached by the author from the standpoint… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Politics is the only serious. subject that men think themselves qualified to act upon without any previous education or instruction whatever. If… — Hugh Price Hughes Copy Share Image
I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always… — John Muir Copy Share Image