Paul Klee Quotes

We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.

Paul Klee

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• The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Science
  • California
  • Engineering

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Character
  • Truth
  • Science

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Science
  • Literature

• In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • History
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Science
  • Engineering

• There are three stages in this journey that I have been on. The first. the social science stage; the second, the psychedelic stage; and the third, the yogi stage.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Science
  • Journey

• More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook. This is transferable from country to country, and from race to race, wherever there is a rational society.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Country
  • Society
  • Science

• Science demands patience.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Science
  • Patience

• We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Science

• Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on.

  

  Leslie Dewan
  • Science

• Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.

  

  Carol W. Greider
  • People
  • Science
  • Understanding

• People believe that art and science are two distinct realms. It is far from the truth because, if you look at science from a microscope or from a different lens, you can see the beauty in science. It is very artistic.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Inspiration

• I have the responsibility to let the people know what happened to me, and did I commit the crime or if I didn’t, what is the real accusation? Why am I in this condition today? I think it reflects our human condition in this piece of land, and if I don’t bear some responsibility . . . . many, many people, their voice can never be heard.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called 'the significant trifle' - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Political

• We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Science
  • Virtue
  • Construction