“My aim is to borrow from the (visible) world nothing but forces—not forms, but the means of making forms. Not history. Not décor. But the feeling of matter itself, rock, air, water, vegetable matter—and their elementary properties. And acts and phases—not persons and their memory.” (Paul Valéry)
“The idea of landscape, that free falling splendor of sensation that artists unearth in the cosmos or in the ripples of a river lies at the core of human experience, the fabric of experience. Artists experience their environments differently. Intensities and perceptions vary. Regardless, it is the outside space of the imagination that entices and for some artists the richest soil to germinate is there.” (Tad Mike 2009)
Nature never acts, yet it activates everything. (Tao Te Ching)
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." ~ Lao Tzu
Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' because you will get 'down the drain,' into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that. Richard Feynman
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. Richard Feynman: The Character of Physical Law (1965)
Seeing our understanding of nature as a mathematical construction has fundamentally different implications from seeing it as an empirical synthesis. in: A Different Universe. Robert B. Laughlin
How can space be curved? And if it is true, how can we know about it? ~Anonymous
You can never smash a rock with an egg ~ Anonymous
Lately, I feel like the universe is trying to tell me something. ~ Anonymous
"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." ~ Marcus Aurelius
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." ~ John Muir
"The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees." ~Erwin Schrödinger
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real." ~ Niels Bohr
"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." ~Werner Heisenberg
"Understanding is not a matter of having a set of rules, but rather of fitting into the great order of nature." ~ David Bohm
"The more I examine the universe, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming." ~ Freeman Dyson