Margaret Morse Nice famous quotes

The study of nature is a limitless field, the most fascinating adventure in the world.
-- Margaret Morse Nice

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I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.
-- Margaret Morse Nice

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Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.
-- Margaret Morse Nice

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Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

A divided heart loses both worlds.

Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.