Vladimir Vernadsky Quotes

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An organism is involved with the environment to which it is not only adapted but which is adapted to it as well.

Vladimir Vernadsky
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of the earth. Activated by radiation, the matter of the biosphere collects and redistributes solar energy, and converts it ultimately into free energy capable of doing work on earth.

Vladimir Vernadsky
Science is alone and the routes to its achievement are alone. They are independent from the ideas of man, from his aspirations and wishes, from the social tenor of his life, from his philosophical, social, and religious theories. They are independent from his will and from his world outlook — they are primordial.

Vladimir Vernadsky
Scientific discoveries are never readymade or complete. The process of scientific discovery, illuminated by the intellect of great human personalities, is at the same time a slow process of universal human development stretching over the ages.

Vladimir Vernadsky
Scientists are in fact imaginers and artists; they are not free with their ideas; they can work well and hard only at what their thinking accepts and what their feelings are drawn to. Ideas alternate; impossible and often mad ones appear; they swarm and whirl, fuse and sparkle. Scientists live among these ideas and work for them.

Vladimir Vernadsky