Mary Midgley

Man is not adapted to live in a mirror-lined box, generating his own electric light and sending for selected images from outside when he needed them. Darkness and bad smell are all that can come from that. We need a vast world, and it must be a world that does not need us; a world constantly capable of surprising us, a world we did not program, since only such a world is the proper object of wonder.

From the 1978 book Beast and Man by the English moral philosopher Mary Midgley  (born 1919).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Midgley

Henry Louis Mencken

“Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.”

Henry Louis Mencken ( 1880 - 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture and known as the “Sage of Baltimore".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Louis_Mencken

Dr. John Liverlees

We are witnessing the decay of man – the decay of his teeth, his arteries, bowels and his joints, on a colossal and unprecedented scale

Today’s Green Thought comes the late Dr. John Liverlees, former president of the McCarrison Society

 

http://www.mccarrisonsociety.org.uk/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McCarrison#McCarrison_Society

 

Albert Einstein

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”

Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955) (often regarded as the father of modern physics) was a German-born theoretical physicist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein