“the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we need an environmental ethic that will tell us as much about using nature as about not using it.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“did of controlled burnings by the native population before the arrival of the first British explorers.29 And the history of that native population is… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“Electrons and photons are still worse. In graduate school I roomed for a time with a particle physicist. He ended one attempt to explain… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“I’m not even much of a gardener—my contribution to the family garden consists mainly of compost.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“the majority of our most serious environmental problems start right here, at home, and if we are to solve these problems, we need an… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“as I intend, you should begin to look with different eyes at your immediate surroundings, seeing not just leaves but yourself and everything around… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“I knew about viscosity, but I’d heard about it in a course in physical chemistry, not in physics. Step by step, the questions I… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“This book intends to make the case for explanation by reduction to physics and mechanical engineering, to this alternative realm of explanation: not to… — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“The search for predictive and explanatory general rules—that’s the crux of our game.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“Reductionism describes the scheme, and it has a long history of successes.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“Recognize, though, that graphs and equations provide an economical and effective way of expressing things that torture the tongue.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
“science isn’t about the things but about the relationships among the things.” — Steven Vogel Copy Share Image
