The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
~By Euclid ~
Mother Nature is not sweet.
~By John Shelby Spong ~
Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.
~By Thomas Reid ~
Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
~By Lactantius ~
If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.
~By Henry W. Kendall ~
To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.
~By Bodhidharma ~
We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
~By Ernest Shackleton ~
Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union.
~By John Hutton ~
American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.
~By Dee Hock ~
I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature - the very thought of it drives me mad.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
~By Rollo May ~
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in ming that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.
~By Marian Anderson ~
It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.
~By Gottfried Leibniz ~
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.
~By Brendan Gill ~
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
~By Jack Kroll ~
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
~By George Mason ~
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
~By John Muir ~
Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
~By Ben Edwards ~
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
~By Luther Burbank ~
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
~By Christopher Morley ~
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it.
~By Philip Emeagwali ~
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
~By Louis Aragon ~
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
~By Al Gore ~
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
~By L. Sprague de Camp ~
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
~By Bridget Riley ~
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
~By Toni Morrison ~
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
~By Alfred Austin ~
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
Nature is neutral.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.
~By Ivan Turgenev ~
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
~By Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
~By Edith Hamilton ~
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
~By Abdolkarim Soroush ~
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
~By Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus ~
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
A love of nature is a consolation against failure.
~By Berthe Morisot ~
The course of Nature is the art of God.
~By Edward Young ~
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
~By William Hazlitt ~
I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
~By Donald Fagen ~
The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
~By Len Wein ~
Nature is the art of God.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.
~By Alex Noble ~
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
~By Plato ~
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
~By Martin Luther ~
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.
~By Charles Jules Henry Nicole ~
Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
~By Charles D. Broad ~
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
~By Sidney Altman ~
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
~By Paul de Man ~
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
~By Arthur C. Clarke ~
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
~By James Thomson ~
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
~By Tacitus ~
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.
~By Brigham Young ~
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
~By Charles Mackay ~
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
~By Robert Trout ~
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
~By James C. Maxwell ~
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.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.
~By Godfrey Reggio ~
The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
Nature has different times.
~By Michael Tippett ~
I came away from the forums with a profound concern about the highly addictive and destructive nature of methamphetamine. Families are torn apart, lives are destroyed and treatment is difficult to get.
~By Greg Walden ~
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
~By Jerome K. Jerome ~
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
~By J. P. Donleavy ~
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
~By George A. Smith ~
Nature hates calculators.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
~By Alan King ~
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
~By Chaim Potok ~
And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man.
~By Chaim Potok ~
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
~By Aeschylus ~
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
~By Brit Hume ~
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.
~By Bill Frist ~
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
~By Giambattista Vico ~
Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.
~By Michael Pollan ~
It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
~By Adam Weishaupt ~
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