Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Aristotle

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Aristotle

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Aristotle

Man is by nature a political animal.

Ben Jonson

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Sally Hawkins

Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.

Richard P. Feynman

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature and because he can put them to his service.... But the essential fact we must surely all feel in our hearts ... is that we are becoming inhuman in proportion as we become supermen.

Albert Schweitzer

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Ian Mckellen

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

Harold Urey

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is to worry about everything too much.

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

John Sculley

I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.

James Garner

People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

Nalini Nadkarni

When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.

Aleister Crowley

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

Albert Einstein

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

Albert Einstein

Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.

Albert Einstein

Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

Albert Einstein

The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

Albert Einstein

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nature, even in the act of satisfying anticipation, often provides a surprise.

Alfred North Whitehead

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

Alfred North Whitehead

There is no nature at an instant.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And out of darkness came the hands that reach through nature, moulding men.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Either sex alone is half itself.