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“Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.”

Source: The Common Sense of Science

“A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.”

Giving Eye Nature Views Unity Glances Instantaneous

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.”

Needs Seems Nature Diversity Intellectual Unity Delight Convenience Complication

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.”

Way Fear Nature Wind Lonely Unity Blow Flames Flood Multitudes

Book:COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

“Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.”

Wells Littles Feelings Wisdom Reality Science Nature Community Space Class Human Nature Unity Individuality Cosmos

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.”

Needs Reality Science Politics Nature Community Leadership Justice Policy Happenings Ethics Unity Congress Deny Debate

Author:Bill Nye

“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.”

“Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.”

Source: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies

“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.”

“It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.”

Kind Different Science Causes Nature Consequence Accounts Unity Different Kinds Adequacy

Book:Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770

Source: Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770