Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes about Science

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Nature, Science, Long

Joseph Wood Krutch (1955). “The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation”, National Academies

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Science, Animal, Survival

Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.22, University of Iowa Press

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Science, Men, Religion

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Nature, Science, Self

Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Art, Science, May

Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Science, Technology, Men

1949 The Twelve Seasons,'February'.