"Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have..."
- William Golding
"Tapestries are made by many artisans working together. The contributions of separate workers cannot be discerned in the completed work, and the loose and false threads have been covered over. So it is..."
- Sheldon L. Glashow
"One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unl..."
- John H. Van Vleck
"Cosmology is a science which has only a few observable facts to work with."
- Robert Woodrow Wilson