"The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Nature Quotes #Phenomenon Quotes

“In the real world, if you're in a car chase, you're going to hit a million things and your car is going to end up a total wreck by the end.”
“Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.”

Source : Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218
“The succession of individuals, connected by reproduction and belonging to a species, makes it possible for the specific form itself to last for ages. In the end, however, the species is temporary; it has no "eternal life." After existing for a certain period, it either dies or is converted by modification into other forms.”

Source : Ernst Haeckel (1904). “Wonders of life”
“The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.”

Source : Pierre Loti (2005). “Egypt”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.
“Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.”
“Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.”
“Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.”
“Itâ€™s not getting to the wall that counts; itâ€™s what you do after you hit it.”

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