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Loren Eiseley [1907-1977] American
Rank: 103
Scientist, Science writer


Loren Eiseley was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s. He received many honorary degrees and was a fellow of multiple professional societies.

Great, Nature, War

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One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star. Nature
101
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
102
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. Great
103
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
104
Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.
105
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. War
106
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
107
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.
108
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
109
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
110

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