William Whewell Quotes

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

William Whewell

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• It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

  

  Tacitus
  • Nature
  • Hate
  • Human Nature

• Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Complicated

• Nature can do more than physicians.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Nature
  • More
  • Medical

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Genius

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Kiss
  • Entertainment
  • Vegas

• For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Mask

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Now
  • Adapt

• As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Nature

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Most

• When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Motion

• Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

  

  George Washington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Faces

• Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that permits a continuous series of answers. The observations, the individual results of measurements, are the answers of Nature to our discontinuous questioning.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Nature
  • Virtue
  • Answers

• Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Positive
  • Farming

• There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

  

  William Whewell
  • Nature
  • Faces
  • Theory