
Source: Cosmos: A Co-creator's Guide to the Whole-World (2010), p. ix.
Source: Cosmos: A Co-creator's Guide to the Whole-World (2010), p. ix.
Source: Virtual Mercury House. Planetary & Interplanetary Events, p. 138
A New System of Chemical Philosophy, Part I http://books.google.com/books?id=Wp7QAAAAMAAJ (1808) as quoted by Richard Reeves, A Force of Nature The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford (2008)
“The less we depend on each other, the less connected we become.”
Principles of Modern Chemistry (7th ed., 2012), Ch. 1 : The Atom in Modern Chemistry
Think on These Things (1998), compiled by Clarke E. Johnston, p. 22
Other quotes
1990s
Source: Foreword for Discovering the Brain (1992) by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii; often paraphrased: "The brain is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."
The Silence of Trees (2010)
Context: Back home, these lessons were taught in songs and stories passed along by grandmothers, wise women who held a cherished place in the circle of community. I thought someday to take my place among them. But the war had broken the cycle and torn millions of people away from the bosoms of their mothers. We were forever searching to recapture all that we had lost … connections to blood, to bones, to earth.
And connections resurface … refuse to be denied.