- Society
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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
- Celebrity Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors have become much more savvy about the nature of television celebrity these days. We were not. The kind of celebrity culture that exists now didn't exist in the 1980s.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts.
- Divest
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
- Divest
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights. The people can act only by their agents and, within the powers conferred upon them, their acts must be considered as the acts of the people.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
InSight will get to the 'core' of the nature of the interior and structure of Mars, well below the observations we've been able to make from orbit or the surface.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rising inequality is not a law of nature - it's not even a law of economics. It is a consequence of political and economic arrangements, and those arrangements can be changed.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
- Human Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
- Heroism
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
- Award
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- Nov 07, 2020
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020