“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
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Voices on nature
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
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“Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.”
“A bird perched on a branch is never afraid of the branch breaking. Her trust is in her wings.”
“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.”
“There's nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.”
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
“Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.”
“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
“Nature abhors annihilation.”
“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”
“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.”
“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.”
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.”
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
“Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”
“Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.”
“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”