The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history… It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.
To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons
For the first time in the history of the world every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals from the moment of conception until death.
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.
In every out-thrust headland in every curving beach in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
If a child is too 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.
For the sense of smell almost more than any other has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
If a child is too 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.