Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which… — 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 Image
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 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 or destroy,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
