Nature Quotes
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In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.
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My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.
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There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.
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So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?
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Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.
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Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.
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In the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.
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Western art has a certain relationship to nature.
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The nature of a football team means you're relying on 10 other guys. Even then, that doesn't guarantee a win.
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Human nature doesn't really change a lot. We haven't changed that much and politics haven't changed that much. It's still the same things we're debating today that we did 300 years ago, which is a little bit scary when you think about it.
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One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.
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Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
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Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
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To every one Nature appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.
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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
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As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.
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And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
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If you don’t try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
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I think a really great creative person is almost by nature incredibly curious and digging deeply into cultures and technologies and getting all this input and using it to make things better - basically, creating better solutions.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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It is only by long and laborious study, and by the comparison of a number of individuals, that it will be possible to succeed in establishing correct average proportions each age, and in settling the limits betwixt they can be made to vary, without ceasing to be accurate and faithful to nature—our first and guide in this difficult study.
