Quotes About Nature

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.

Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.

Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and God endows it with its blessed power of making people happy.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.