Dominion Quote by Charles Lyell

This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years…

— Julian Huxley

Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

— Vladimir Lenin

“It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible,…

— John A. Widtsoe

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies…

— Ruth Nanda Anshen

“A critical piece of holistic self-becoming involves the deeply felt realization that our thoughts, beliefs and intentions aren’t merely mental or ‘just imaginary’ events.…

— Sol Luckman

“The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the…

— Dan Brown

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of…

— John Robert Seeley

“Human beings cannot, of course, wholly transcend human nature; something subjective, if only the interest that determines the direction of our attention, must remain…

— Bertrand Russell

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because…

— Nicolas Malebranche

“Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.”

— W.H. Auden

“We have developed a more logical and discursive mode of thought. Instead of looking at a physical phenomena imaginatively, we strip an object of…

— Karen Armstrong