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“If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”

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Arthur C. Clarke

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

“"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which it occurs-whether it itself be a subsidiary whole or an "element"-is a very real process usually involving alterations in that "part". Modifications of a part frequently involve changes elsewhere in the whole itself. Nor is the nature of these alterations arbitrary, for they too are determined by whole-conditions.”

Real Whole Science Process Nature Change Pieces Conditions Elements Determined Organized Elsewhere Arbitrary Involving Alterations Modification

Author:Max Wertheimer

“A man should carry nature in his head.”

Men Should Science Nature Learning

Book:The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

“Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted the general movement. The rivers and the rocks, the seas and the continents, have been changed in all their parts; but the laws which direct those changes, and the rules to which they are subject, have remained invariably the same.”

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Book:Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth

Source: Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth

“Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.”

Source: A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick

“And nature must obey necessity.”

Science Nature

Author:William Shakespeare

“As time goes on, it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those which Nature has chosen.”

Science Nature Interesting Goes On Chosen Mathematician Evident Time Goes On

Author:Paul Dirac

“But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.”

Ends Science Nature Natural Infinite Imperfect

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

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

“Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!”

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