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Quotes About Order

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.
~ Helen Reddy
Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
~ Ellen Hunnicutt
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.
~ Galileo Galilei
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
~ Baruch Spinoza
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
~ Willem de Kooning
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
~ Eric Hoffer
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
~ Stella Gibbons
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
~ Henry Adams
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.
~ Maria Montessori
In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry.
~ Jons Jacob Berzelius
I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.
~ Carl Safina
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
~ Theodore Levitt
Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.
~ James Cagney
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
~ Thomas Huxley
We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Nature never breaks her own laws.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There is a real world independent of our senses; the laws of nature were not invented by man, but forced on him by the natural world. They are the expression of a natural world order.
~ Max Planck
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
~ Immanuel Kant
A miracle is an act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
~ Ambrose Bierce
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.
~ Baruch Spinoza
If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
~ Vinoba Bhave
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
~ Margaret Mead
There are no accidents in Nature.
~ John Muir
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.
~ Francis Bacon