Science & Discovery

"The things I haven't seen with my own eyes are for me unknown."

"Now, very few are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique."

"The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."

"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. ."

"A clear conscience doesn’t mean anything if you haven’t any conscience."

"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena."

"Every operation in nature is in the shortest, best ordered, briefest, and best possible way."

"In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It’s their nature. They can’t help it."

"Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach."

"...to be able to say of a representation that it is "exactly like Nature " is by no means equivalent to saying that it is a fine picture."

"You are a reflection of nature. You should always be upgrading, refining, and improving."

"The desire of a poet for his writings to be in print is as natural as a painter needs to exhibit his work in public."

"4678. The Mountains have brought forth a Mouse."

"The problem with painting in Zoos is that it's slightly too effective. They tend to get rid of it as soon as possible. I'd had enough when the rope ladder into the Chimpanzee enclosure at the Sydney Zoo snapped and I fell into the moat getting a mouthful of monkey piss. By 10am the next morning the words 'Please help me get out of here I am the victim of a cruel scientific experiment... I am not a monkey... Somebody do something' had been completely painted over. The solution was to write stuff on cardboard and throw it into the enclosures when no one was looking. Then you just sit back and listen to the explanation parents give as their kids ask 'Why don't we just let them go home if they want to, mummy?'"

"With Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the fundamental role of experimental errors became a basic feature of physics."