Quotes About Nature

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

[Geology] opens up such wide intellectual vistas and supplies a more perfectly unified and more comprehensive conception of nature than any other science.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes.

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

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.

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.