Nature Quotes

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

Nikita Khrushchev

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does.

George E. Woodbury

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.

B. F. Skinne

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Robert Darwin

It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Albert Einstein

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature.

Albert Camus

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

E. B. White

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)

Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...

Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".