“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.” MenWellsEarthScienceBeliefLinesKnowledgePositionExpressionUniqueImportanceRaisedStriveWell BeingImportance Of Science Author:Marie Curie
“A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation.” IfsKnowsFirstsDoeBodyWould BeEarthProcessSpaceViewsEvidenceCapacityFairsImportanceAcceptedSeparationProbability Book:The Nikola Tesla Treasury Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury
“We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.” IfsKnowsWayWantLoveGivingDoeEarthValuesLove IsOur LivesGoes OnImportanceStrongerWhat You WantGravesEndlessLove Death Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.” IfsThinkingKnowsEarthJoyOceanImportanceAtmosphereGlimpseMajestyBeamMicrobes Author:Sylvia Earle