3 December 2020 W. Somerset Maugham Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
3 December 2020 David Deutsch Quantum computation is… a distinctively new way of harnessing nature… It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
3 December 2020 Neil Young I’m not into organized religion. I’m into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we’re all just part of nature.
3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders’ attitudes toward risk – and failure.
3 December 2020 Georg C. Lichtenberg The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
3 December 2020 Annie Leibovitz I wish that all of nature’s magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.
3 December 2020 Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
3 December 2020 Alexander Pope Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
3 December 2020 Muhammad Iqbal The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
3 December 2020 Charles Lindbergh In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again become great.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov To insult someone we call him ‘bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
3 December 2020 Alfred Adler The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
3 December 2020 Hamlin Garland I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
3 December 2020 Leonardo da Vinci Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn’t destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
