- 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
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren't very - I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it's very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn't allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
- Ascendancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I rarely know the nature of the metaphor when I begin to write, but there is an attentiveness that a writer develops, a sudden alertness that is much like the feel of a fish brushing against a hook.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020