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Quotes About World

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.
~ Max Planck
The world is my country. Science my religion.
~ Christiaan Huygens
Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.
~ Stanislaw Lem
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.
~ Karl Jaspers
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
~ Oliver Sacks
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
~ Albert Einstein
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.
~ Carlos Castaneda
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.
~ Jacob Bronowski
What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.
~ Aubrey de Grey
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
~ Bertrand Russell
Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.
~ David Mumford
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
~ Paul Nurse
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.
~ Steven Weinberg
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
~ Rudy Rucker
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
~ Simone Weil
If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?
~ Pat Murphy
The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.
~ Christian Boltanski
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
~ Liberty Hyde Bailey
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
~ Albert Einstein
Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.
~ Martin Rees
It devolves upon the United States to help motorize the world.
~ Walter Chrysler
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.
~ Jim Al-Khalili