Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.
John RuskinThere is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
John RuskinThe work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin