Quotes About Nature

Look at those animals and remember the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.

To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King.

We need no science of formulae, but a science of forms.

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.