Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial. – Edgar Allan Poe

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. – Henry David Thoreau

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. – Alan C. Kay