977 private quotes tagged nature

“He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.” — Aristotle

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“A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.” — Alexander Pope

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“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.” — Alexander Pope

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“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.” — Aristotle

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“Water is the driving force of all nature.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.” — Niels Bohr

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“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!” — Alexander Pope

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“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.” — Albert Einstein

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“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” — Aristotle

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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu

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“In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“I love not man the less, but Nature more.” — Lord Byron

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“A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” — William Shakespeare

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“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.” — H. G. Wells

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“Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.” — Albert Einstein

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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.” — Albert Einstein

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“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.” — Victor Hugo

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“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.” — Francis Bacon

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