“I believe our future depends on how well we know this Cosmos in which we float like a mote of dust in the morning sky.”
Source: Cosmos
“The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.
From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls. Some part of our being knows this is from where we came. We long to return. These aspirations are not, I think, irreverent, although they may trouble whatever gods may be.”
Source: Cosmos
“Life, in its truest sense, is an appreciable applied science, it demands not theory, but practice.”
“Naskar's Razor: When more than one course of action are possible, most humane course is the correct course of action, even if it's not the most efficient, logical or traditional.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“For mature thought there is no mechanical substitute”
Source: As We May Think
“My audience is the future of my nation and my species. Their reaction to death, and the beauty of this bird, will not leave my mind, even as I deliver some standard lecture on genetics for the next forty-fice minutes.”
Source: Life Lessons from a Parasite: What Tapeworms, Flukes, Lice, and Roundworms Can Teach Us About Humanity’s Most Difficult Problems
“UNDERWAY ON NUCLEAR POWER. --USS NAUTILUS, as the world's first nuclear powered ship left its pier for its maiden voyage, 1955”
“2. It only takes a few seconds to remember that our bodies are vibrant landscapes, worlds shaped by the forces of nature. Within each human are elements forged from ancient stars, rivers of blood reflecting the great waterways of earth, neural pathways branching like sprawling roots of forests, and electromagnetic waves humming in rhythm with invisible forces around us. We are simultaneously mountain, ocean, and sky; a microcosm, home to millions of organisms.”
Source: 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return
“It only takes a few seconds to remember that our bodies are vibrant landscapes, worlds shaped by the forces of nature. Within each human are elements forged from ancient stars, rivers of blood reflecting the great waterways of earth, neural pathways branching like sprawling roots of forests, and electromagnetic waves humming in rhythm with invisible forces around us. We are simultaneously mountain, ocean, and sky; a microcosm, home to millions of organisms.”
Source: 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return
“Organicity is the natural intelligence and wisdom our bodies are born with, outside of awareness. It is … communicated through our intuition—the old-growth forest of the mind, a non-linear, dynamic, complex medium through which nature’s potential is unveiled.”
Source: 7 Principles of Nature: How We Strayed and How We Return