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“If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.”

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Author:Carl Sagan

“The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.”

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Book:Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

Source: Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions.”

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Book:Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia

Source: Isaaci Newtoni Opera quae exstant omnia

“The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.”

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Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 11 March to 27 November 1813

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 11 March to 27 November 1813

“The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.”

“When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton ... are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.”

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Book:The Common Sense of Science

Source: The Common Sense of Science

“The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science.”

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Book:Course of popular lectures

Source: Course of popular lectures

“Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.”

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Book:Louis Lambert

Source: Louis Lambert

“Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies significant appearance. It presents abstract themes in their generality, but not reduced to diagrams.”

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Book:Visual Thinking

Source: Visual Thinking

“...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules, except in effect just to watch and see how they unfold.”

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Author:Stephen Wolfram

“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”

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Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

“Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake. Suppose then another similar cause to have excited another equal series of waves, which arrive at the same time, with the first. Neither series of waves will destroy the other, but their effects will be combined.”

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Book:Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs

Source: Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs

“Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist. Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe. Dogbert: Sounds cultish.”