Distance Quote by Carl Sagan

“Science has eliminated distance,” Melquíades proclaimed. “In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental…

— Paul Feyerabend

There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is,…

— Susan Meiselas

It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe…

— Francis Crick

“This conclusion about perception is devastating for science: If our percepts are theory-laden, then perception is hardly a neutral and independent check upon our…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to…

— Felix Klein

The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature,…

— Paul Feyerabend

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be…

— Max Horkheimer

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

— Anthony Stafford Beer

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

— Franz Grillparzer

...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own…

— James Jeans

The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

— John B. S. Haldane