Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

~ Teilhard de Chardin

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

~ Emerson

And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic harps, diversely framed
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze
At once the soul of each, and God of all

~ Coleridge

What we see is not nature itself,
but nature exposed to our
particular method of questioning.

~ Heisenberg