Henri Poincare Quotes

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

But only God can make a tree.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me.

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.