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Nature Journal
(4 Nov 1869 - )
British science journal which was founded when astrophysicist J. Norman Lockyer and Thomas Henry Huxley encouraged Alexander Macmillan to publish weekly 'a general scientific journal'. Its first article, 'Goethe: Aphorisms on Nature' was written by Huxley. Lockyer also contributed with 'The Recent Total Eclipse in America.'
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Science Quotes by Nature Journal (2)
Her [Rosalind Franklin's] photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.
— Nature Journal
Obituary of Rosalind Franklin, Nature, 1958, 182, 154.
The scientific enterprise is full of experts on specialist areas but woefully short of people with a unified worldview. This state of affairs can only inhibit progress, and could threaten political and financial support for research.
— Nature Journal
Commentary, Nature (14 Aug 1997), 619. Quoted in Denis Alexander, Rebuilding the Matrix (2003), 7.
See also: | Expert (7) | Money (69) | Politics (18) | Progress (117) | Research (208) | Specialist (5)
Quotes by others about Nature Journal (3)
To the solid ground Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.
[From the first issue, and for over one hundred years, this quote appeared under the masthead of Nature journal. 'Aye' is an archaic word meaning 'always'.]
[From the first issue, and for over one hundred years, this quote appeared under the masthead of Nature journal. 'Aye' is an archaic word meaning 'always'.]
From Sonnet 34, The Poems of William Wordsworth (1849), 203.
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What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.
[Commenting on the title of the journal.]
[Commenting on the title of the journal.]
From 'History' web page of NPG, Nature Publishing Group, www.nature.com.
See also: | Admiration (4) | Cosmos (6) | Genius (53) | Idea (83) | Matter (61) | Mind (116) | Nature (243) | Universe (138)
[Lockyer]... sometimes forgets he is only the editor and not the author of Nature.
[Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]
[Lockyer was the first editor of Nature.]
J. W. L. Glaisher (ed.), The Collected Mathematical Papers of Henry John Stephen Smith (1894), Vol. 1, xliv.
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