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Letter "N" » natural history
«Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| Keywords:
favors, Human history, murderous, natural history, natural selection, operated, selection, selections
«To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
believing, correct, indifference, misery, natural history, placed
«I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, tapestry, and porcelain.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
architecture, history of music, My Sons, natural history, natural order, natural philosophy, Natural right, porcelain, sons, tapestry
«No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
contingent, contingent on, genealogical, natural history, natural order, Order of, pathway, pathways, rational, species, The Natural, unites
«Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
History,
Humanity,
Logic,
Mankind,
Mathematics,
Morality,
Philosophy,
Poets
| Keywords:
contend, Histories, moral philosophy, natural history, natural philosophy, rhetoric, witty
«I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.»
Author: John Keats
(Poet)
| Keywords:
class, History of, lawyer, monsters, natural history, The Natural
«To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
galleries, gallery, natural history, stroll, strolled, tenths, uninstructed
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