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Letter "N" » Nature
«There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.»
«There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.»
«There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.»
Author: Bill Wulf
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
comprehend, division, imposition, impositions, natural science, reflects, The Division
«The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.»
«The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.»
«The course of Nature is the art of God»
«They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit..»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
heresy, oppress, preach, pulpit, pulpits, take up, unjustly, whereby
«The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Nature,
Universe,
World
| Keywords:
board, board game, chess, chess game, chess player, Laws of nature, Other side, phenomena, player, Rules of, the laws of nature, The other side, The Player, The Rules
«The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
concealed, indicate, majestic, The Majestic, vesture
«There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Nature,
Religion,
Science
| Keywords:
blasphemer, blasphemers, Christians, Christian Science, impostor, impostors, Jews, pervert, perverted, perverting, perverts, priests, scarcely, sought
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