Quotes about nature
nature science circles
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude. Friedrich Nietzsche
nature lying knowledge
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
nature science hermeneutics
When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible. Franz Grillparzer
nature decision principles
Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision. Jeanette Winterson
nature believe habit
What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit. Jewel
nature sky umbrella
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. Jerzy Kosinski
nature flower butterfly
The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. Isaac Watts
nature simplicity causes
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. Isaac Newton
nature distance science
Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Phænomena of Nature?
nature science intelligent
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.
nature science men
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
nature men insanity
All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.
nature enthusiasm inspired
Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.
nature law purpose
Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.
nature names mind
As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.
nature cheer water
[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. George Berkeley
nature mean simple
Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.
nature jobs taken
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. George Bernard Shaw
nature lying years
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.
nature mind want
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. Galileo Galilei
nature men law
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.
nature dark moon
If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
nature period release takes time
Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place. Ezra Taft Benson
nature stretched tough
By the nature of his injury, it's going to be tough to get him stretched out as a starter. Jon Daniels
nature real lakes
The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world. Georges Simenon
nature people cynical
It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves. Indira Gandhi
nature believe animal
[I believe] that animals have a worth in and of themselves, and that they are not inferior to human beings but rather just different from us, and that they really don't exist for us nor do they belong to us...it should not be a question of how they should be treated within the context of their usefulness, or perceived usefulness, to us, but rather whether we have a right to use them at all. Ingrid Newkirk
nature thinking space
The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. Jim Fowler
nature important quality
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.
nature animal skeletons
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a modern city, reefs are constantly being rebuilt and torn down at the same time. Corals are the bricks, broken pieces of plant and animal skeletons the sand, and algal crusts and chemical cements the mortar. Reef growth is determined by the production, accumulation, and cementation of all this calcareous stuff into solid limestone. Jeremy Jackson
nature eye escaping
I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others. Jean-Paul Sartre
nature roots profound
Absurd, irreducible; nothing--not even a profound and secret delirium of nature--could explain [a tree root].
nature lying eye
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes... George Sand