Quotes About Nature

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

Science is the true theology.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.