Quotes About Nature

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

Philosophically, mathematics is not a part of science. Mathematics studies patterns, science studies nature

...all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.

Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.

First causes are outside the realm of science.