Nature Quotes
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Voltaire
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.Denis Diderot
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.Sir Francis Bacon
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.Archibald Alexande
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.Hugh Elliott
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.Marcus Aureluis
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.John Mui
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.Hellen Kelle
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.Charles Robert Darwin
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.Bill Wulf
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.Bhagavad Gita
Nature hates calculators.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.Henry Ward Beeche
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.Anatole France
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.David Hume
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.Cicero
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.Joseph Addison
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.Francis Bacon
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.Lao Tzu
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.Aristotle
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.Sydney Smith
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.George Santayana
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.Blaise Pascal, Pensees(II, 72)
It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us.John Ruskin
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.Mary Wilson Little
