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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.… — Albert Einstein
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous… — Theodore Parker
I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows… — Hans Selye
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion… — Albert Einstein
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. — Barry Commoner
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most… — Peter McWilliams
In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular… — Jacques Monod
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. — E. O. Wilson
Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that… — Bill Bryson
"Endow scientific research and we shall know the truth, when and where it is possible to ascertain it;" but the counterblast is at hand: "To… — Karl Pearson
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs,… — Clifford Geertz
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have… — Thomas Jefferson
When one longs for a drink, it seems as though one could drink a whole ocean-that is faith; but when one begins to drink, one… — Anton Chekhov
There are in the human mind a group of faculties and in the brain groups of convolutions, and the facts assembled by science so far… — Paul Broca
My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the… — Lewis Carroll
When you look at that nature world it becomes an icon, it becomes a holy picture that speaks of the origins of the world. Almost… — Joseph Campbell
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry… — Swami Vivekananda
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are… — Albert Einstein

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