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Quotes About Interconnectedness

Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
~ Rosalind Franklin
To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.
~ Joseph Fourier
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.
~ Joel Sartore
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
~ George Wald
Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.
~ Theodore T. Munger
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
~ Erik Adigard
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
~ David Hilbert
We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.
~ Mary Daly
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
There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
~ Isaac Asimov
The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
~ Lynn Margulis, What Is Life?
The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!
~ Steve Simmons
Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies.
~ Albert Einstein
Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.
~ Fritjof Capra
Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality.
~ Garrett Hardin
Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?
~ Ram Dass
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.
~ Robert Mayer
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
~ Plato
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
~ Henri Poincare
The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
~ Blaise Pascal