Paul D. MacLean famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

  • What a splendid head, yet no brain.

  • Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  • Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  • At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

  • Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

  • Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

  • What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

  • People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

  • The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray from the field of faith and morals and wonder into the playground that is science... it is not the business of the church to pronounce on science.