Quotes About Nature

And nature must obey necessity.

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.

The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Science is not inherently good.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.