All Nature bristles with the ...

All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.
 J. Arthur Thomson

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The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
 J. Arthur Thomson