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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#any #data #definite #derived #embodied

Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#experience #nature #novel #private #reading

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#consciousness #desire #human #human nature #nature

Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas. ↗

— Richard Pombo

#american families #depend #families #firewood #gas

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#dominion #else #fate #final #god

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light! ↗

— Alexander Pope

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