Nature Quotes

You are one of the forces of nature.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of Nature. And it is because in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

Egotism is nature’s compensation for mediocrity.

If the natural course of things were perfectly right and satisfactory, to act at all would be a gratuitous meddling, which, as it could not make things better, must make them worse. Or if action at all could be justified, it would only be when in direct obedience to instincts, since these might perhaps be […]

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.

How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton’s head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

The most important discoveries of the laws, methods and progress of Nature have nearly always sprung from the examination of the smallest objects which she contains.