Air Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“We are living indeed in the period of the Second Coming if that phrase can be said to signify the dawning of Cosmic illumination…

— Wellesley Tudor Pole

“We see, as in the universes of the material kosmos, after meteorological, vegetable, and animal cycles, man at last arises, born through them, to…

— Walt Whitman

“Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one’s mid-life crisis, to the belief that…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing…

— Blaise Pascal

“I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the…

— Albert Einstein

“We all have a set number of days to indent the world with our beliefs, to find and create the beauty that only a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Histories, chronologies and almanacs offer us the illusion of progress, even though, over and over again, we are given proof that there is no…

— Alberto Manguel

“Nature  …   has made it impossible for us to have any communication from this earth with the other great bodies of the universe,…

— Colin Maclaurin

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of…

— Lord Byron

The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their…

— John Playfair