- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature Quotes
Nature seen through curiosity, method, and connection.
Most of these quotes come from a scientific perspective, exploring how questioning and method shape what we understand as nature rather than treating it as something purely separate from us. For quotes that turn nature into short, shareable lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the whole Welsh people would do anything to entertain, and would even neglect their business to do so. But as a stranger in Wales, it is difficult to break through their suspicion and mistrust.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The size of the city and the nature of how independent the neighborhoods are means that not only do people who live outside Chicago not know what is going on there, Chicagoans often don't know what is going on there.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
All art is political. Yes. Even the stuff that sounds like bubble-gum songs. I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
- First Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
- Explain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many objects of our three-dimensional perceptual world are not only chiral but appear in nature in two versions, related at least ideally, as a chiral object and its mirror image.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.
- Nov 07, 2020