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Quotes About Balance

Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.
~ Alfred Kinsey
Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.
~ Fritjof Capra
The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
~ Barry Commoner
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
~ Carl Sagan
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.
~ Isaac Newton
The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life.
~ Prentice Mulford
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
~ Evelyn Waugh
Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Yoga is the art and science of living.
~ Indra Devi
Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.
~ Vinoba Bhave
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
~ William Irwin Thompson
The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.
~ George Perkins Marsh
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.
~ Max Planck
You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.
~ Barnes Wallis
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
~ Isaac Asimov
One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.
~ Israel Gelfand
Private practice and marriage - those twin extinguishers of science.
~ Paul Broca
Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
A busy life is a wasted life.
~ Francis Crick
One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.
~ Norbert Wiener
It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
~ Robert Lanza
We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.
~ Viktor Schauberger