3 December 2020 Denis Diderot 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.
3 December 2020 Max Planck Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
3 December 2020 Thor Heyerdahl A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn’t even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
3 December 2020 Paul Cezanne Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
3 December 2020 David Millar But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That’s inevitable. Where there’s money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
3 December 2020 Georg Cantor I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
3 December 2020 Eric Berne The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
3 December 2020 Joseph Campbell The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
3 December 2020 Hugh Jackman I know I’m not known as method. By nature I’m not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out.
3 December 2020 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
3 December 2020 Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
3 December 2020 C. S. Lewis What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
3 December 2020 Leo Tolstoy One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.
