Quotes About Author

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

Healing with the clean, pure, beautiful agents of nature is surely the one method of all which appeals to most of us

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

The general laws of Nature are not, for the most part, immediate objects of perception.

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.