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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

— Benjamin Whorf

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✓Similar Perspectives

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

— Joseph Wambaugh

The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started moving; and that this motion has caused the feeling that the ground would be cut from science.

— Werner Heisenberg

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

— Nikola Tesla

Fire is our first form of technology.

— Ridley Scott

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

— Martin Puryear

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

— Thomas Carlyle

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

— Michael Leunig

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

— Caroline Paul

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

— Richard P. Feynman

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