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We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part…
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If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no…
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along…
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings…
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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of…
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Short version: For the child. . ., it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the…
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It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one…
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A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.…
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Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from…
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know…
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Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling…
— John Polkinghorne
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According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large…
— Brian Greene
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Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is…
— Richard P. Feynman
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We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of…
— Rachel Carson
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important…
— Dennis Prager
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It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific…
— Michael Crichton
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Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer…
— Nevill Francis Mott
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What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which…
— John Gresham Machen
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As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lover's vow, but we are children of a scientific age and have…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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