Age Quote by Lewis Thomas

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering…

— Isaac Asimov

“It was perhaps inevitable that a reverence for all things ‘scientific’ should be accompanied by some scorn for ‘natural’ processes.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

— Henry Fielding

“What we call ‘natural’ is frequently no more than bad theory.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“No one thing is the cause. All this is only the coincidence of conditions under which every organic, elemental event of life is accomplished.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being;…

— Charles Darwin

“Things do make sense at the time we do them. Then later on, they may make absolutely no sense at all. Isn’t that amazing?…

— Art Hochberg

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

— Ayn Rand

“Nature tells the truth as it is; it has no euphemism”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it…

— Kevin Hearne

“what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning’.77”

— Werner Heisenberg

“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein