You will do it because you know that knowledge is beautiful, and because if only a hundred people share your passion, that is enough.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]

Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

Coincidence has nothing to do with faith , it's justa miss matched eqation of timing and spacing ... just like a butterfly effect

The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.

Nie można zrozumieć ani życia jednostki, ani życia społeczeństwa, nie odnosząc jednego do drugiego.

Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change.In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Time does not move linearly just because we think it does. And the past does not cease to exist simply because we have moved beyond it.