Curiosity Quote by Emily Maitlis

I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In…

— Carolyn Porco

“I have seen landscapes...which, under a particular light, made me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next…

— C.S. Lewis

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a…

— Ernest Becker

Man must spend much more time in extraordinary natural places to grasp much better how remarkable our planet is and to realise what a…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Because the one who by excellency of nature transcends all quantity and size and magnitude...has now...contracted himself into a quantity and size and has…

— John of Damascus

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike…

— Honore de Balzac

It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break…

— Elaine Morgan

“A living planet is a much more complex metaphor for deity than just a bigger father with a bigger fist.”

— David Brin

“Man has tended to make himself the measure of all things. But man’s measure is too tiny to comprehend My majestic vastness. That is…

— Sarah Young

Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process…

— Jacques Loeb