Art Quotes

Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.

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"To be a naturalist is to be a student of beauty and complexity."
Sydney Brenner
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"The replication of DNA is nature's most elegant copying mechanism."
Alfred Hershey
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"In molecular biology, we witness the architecture of existence itself."
Alfred Hershey
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"Art is humanity's attempt to understand itself through reflection."
Hermann Muller
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"Art captures truths that logic alone cannot adequately express."
Hermann Muller
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"The genetic code is nature's poetry written in the language of chemistry."
Max Delbrück
"Science and art both require the ability to see what is not yet visible and make it real through dedication."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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"The diversity of life reflects millions of years of successful adaptation."
Hermann Muller
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"In the dance of evolution, only the most graceful partners survive."
Hermann Muller
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"Natural selection is the artist that paints the living world."
Hermann Muller
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"The language of nature is mathematics, but its poetry is in its simplicity."
Max Delbrück
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"To study life is to study the most complex poetry ever written."
Max Delbrück
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"In every natural phenomenon, there is a story waiting to be deciphered."
Max Delbrück
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"Art and science are expressions of the same truth"
Hugo de Vries
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"Every organism is a masterpiece of design"
Hugo de Vries
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"In the dance of molecules, we see the poetry of creation."
Oswald Avery
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"Every species is a masterpiece of cumulative adaptation."
August Weismann
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"Art expresses what words alone cannot convey."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Art enriches the human experience immeasurably."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"The world cannot live on soap and water alone."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"The world pays homage to art only when it is dead."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Art is the effort of man to express, not to explain."
Thomas Henry Huxley
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"Nature is the greatest artist; evolution, her masterpiece."
Hugo de Vries
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"In the garden, we see written the story of life's infinite creativity."
Hugo de Vries
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"Art is the imitation of nature in her manner of operation."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"Art that captures truth has power that transcends generations."
Alfred Russel Wallace
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"In anatomy lies the poetry of creation."
Richard Owen
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"Life's diversity is nature's greatest artwork."
Richard Owen
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"The vertebrate form is a masterpiece of functional design."
Richard Owen
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"Nature is the art of God."
Carolus Linnaeus