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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.
Heinz R. Pagels

For the harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson

We see nothing till we truly understand it.
John Constable

All cruelty springs from weakness.
Seneca

It is a prove of the true, rightly understood true religion, that she brings us back to the beautiful.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

They who have presumed to dogmatize on Nature, as on some well-investigated subject, either from self-conceit or arrogance, and in the professorial style, have inflicted the greatest injury on philosophy and learning.
Francis Bacon

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
Bernard Berenson

It just doesn’t feel like standing and watching while a tsunami is bearing down on you, which is how the nonfiction feels to me.
David Foster Wallace

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
Johan Huizinga