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“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”

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Arthur C. Clarke was a British science fiction author, writer, and science popularizer. Known for his science fiction novels and predictions about future technology, his most famous works include '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'Rendezvous with Rama'. Clarke's science fiction novels are not only literarily valuable but also had a profound impact on science fiction films and television. more

“Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.”

“Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.”

Science Nature Natural Negative Bipolar

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.”

Action Science Nature Natural Depends Nicomachean Ethics

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.”

Science Causes Nature Natural Results Conditions Effects Produce Passing Passings Passing Away

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

“For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.”

Science Certain Nature Natural Perfect Animal Class Imperfection Imperfect Accustomed Wild Animal

Author:Marcello Malpighi

“Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.”

Science Force Nature Results Known Mystery Events Solutions Solve Mysterious Forces Of Nature

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.”

World Art Science Force Nature Perfect Secret Fashion Chaos Forces Of Nature A Perfect World

Book:Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

Source: Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

“I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.”

Science Nature Prayer Secret Preparation Breathing Science And Religion Unfolding Provinces Allure

Author:Louis Agassiz

“I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.”

“Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.”

Wells Facts Space Forever One Day Intelligent Proof Wit Outer Space Intelligent Life

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

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