There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“i was accused of being against civilization, against science, against humanity. naturally, i was flattered and at the same time surprised, hurt,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The city, which should be the symbol and center of civilization, can also be made to function as a concentration camp. This… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
