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.
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life. Rarely seen by the naked eye, this intersection between the animal world and the plant world is truly a magic moment.
I like to do chill things on dates. I think it would be fun to go to the zoo. I know it's really weird and random, but I love animals. It'd be like a day of doing silly things, while enjoying nature.
Human nature is above all things lazy.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them.
I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.
Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.
When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.
That's what's really bothering me about Trump is the hypocrisy, because when Trump was a candidate, and he got elected - because, by and large, he told the truth about the phony nature of the recovery.
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.
