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  • The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

    Thomas Babington Macaulay, Thomas Noon Talfourd, James Stephen (1854). “Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous: Critical and miscellaneous writings”, p.77
  • Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

    Art   Men   Obscurity  
  • A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

    Scientific Autobiography, and Other Papers "Scientific Autobiography" (1948) (translation by Frank Gaynor)
  • All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

    "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, April 16, 2008.
  • Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

    Edward Young (1811). “The Works of the Rev. Dr. Edward Young”, p.226
  • If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

    Faith   Science   Temples  
    Where is Science Going? epilogue (1932)
  • He who finds though that lets us penetrate even a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace. He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more happiness than one man can bear.

  • Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

    Mind   Religion   Logic  
    Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Travels in the East: Including a Journey in the Holy Land”, p.171
  • Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

    Leonhard Euler (1955). “Commentationes mechanicae ad theoriam corporum fluidorum pertinentes 2nd part”, p.80, Springer Science & Business Media
  • Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.

    Past   Rushing   Water  
    "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.
  • Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

    Thinking   Rocks   Wind  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.34, Graphic Arts Books
  • While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy; and thereby restored her ultimate secrets to that obscurity, in which they ever did and ever will remain.

    David Hume (1759). “The Commonwealth, and the reigns of Charles II. and James II”, p.450
  • Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

  • Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media
  • What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

    Love   Life   Mean  
    Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
  • To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.

    Richard P. Feynman (2008). “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”, p.160, Hachette UK
  • All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.

    Atoms   Matter   Virtue  
    "Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them". Book by Clifford Pickover, 2008.
  • Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

    Nature   Science   Trying  
    Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”
  • He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

  • We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

    Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.38, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

    Hunting   Animal   Facts  
    Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press
  • It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

    Alfred North Whitehead (2007). “The Concept of Nature”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.
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