Animal Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes, accessible to…

— Primo Levi

“He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of mechanical instruments,…

— William Hazlitt

“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our…

— Liu Cixin

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

— John Henrik Clarke

“[...] it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one of the…

— John Steinbeck

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

— Carl Sagan

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he…

— Annie Besant

“ His Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…

— George Wilson

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details…

— Percival Lowell