Quotes About Nature

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

Common sense invents and constructs no less than its own field than science does in its domain. It is, however, in the nature of common sense not to be aware of this situation.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.

Nature engenders the science of painting

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

The real difficulty about volcanism is not to see how it can start, but how it can stop.

Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constitute part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.

There is nothing in science which teaches the origin of anything at all.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.