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“They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.”

Ifs Wells Stills Helping Truth Law Science Destiny Knowing Gravity Our Destiny Astrology Your Destiny Can't Change

Author:Kedar Joshi

“But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense, Old riddles still bid us defiance, Old questions of Why and of Whence.”

Stills Science Window Accounts Sight Defiance Riddle

Author:William Cecil Dampier

“Though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi, they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon. Nothing is world-wide, but everything is episodic. In other words, the history of anyone part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.”

World Long Stills Seems Earth Science Theory Periods Soldier Terror Wide Boredom Phenomenon Plates Modus Operandi

Author:D. V. Ager

“Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.”

“I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.”

Ifs Should Believe Stills Matter Reason Science Universe Individual Belief Interest Race Creator Corners Tiny Reason Why No Reason Insignificant Primeval Fortuitous

Author:Rosalind Franklin

“In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.”

“Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. During a man's life only saplings can be grown, in the place of the old trees-tens of centuries old-that have been destroyed.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”

Stills Science Practice Environment Tree Huge Walking Bigger Sticks Environmental Ran Stakes Living Things Resent Vines Trunks Walking Sticks

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.”

Knows Trying May Stills Science Space Behinds Knowledge Fronts Position Higher Scales Wander Uncharted

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“One can't be of an enquiring and experimental nature, and still be very sensible.”

Mind Stills Science Experiments Sensible Enquiry

Author:Charles Fort

“An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.”

Stills Success Science Failure Aim Pursuit Guarantees Indispensable Hypothesis Betrayed Initials Beacons

Author:Max Planck

“But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.”

Knows Stills Ideas Whole Moments Use Science Lying Given Education Class England Present Moment Neglect Instruction Continents Strict Systematic Prominence

Book:The Works of Matthew Arnold

Source: The Works of Matthew Arnold