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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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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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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

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

— Michael Pollan

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