Accounts Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems…

— Jacques Monod

He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the…

— John Brough

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under…

— Rachel Carson

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

— Criss Jami

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells,…

— Ralph Ellison

“The voyage on the common sea towards some unknown place is perhaps more human than the abstract path to the world’s void.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]”

— Carl Sagan

“[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead…

— Massimo Pigliucci

“World is just like a ship in the sea, having each type of mankind, it depends upon you, whether you join good community or…

— Arbab Jehangir

“But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life,…

— Washington Irving

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use…

— Polykarp Kusch