The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of …

- Ursula Goodenough

It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in . . . art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and m…

- Ursula Goodenough

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and w…

- Ursula Goodenough

Early humans, bursting with questions about Nature but with limited understanding of its dynamics, explained things in terms of supernatural persons …

- Ursula Goodenough

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.

- Ursula Goodenough

The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The in…

- Ursula Goodenough

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

- Ursula Goodenough

The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant…

- Ursula Goodenough

Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable conseque…

- Ursula Goodenough