Bertrand Russell Life, Philosophy, Nature
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.” Henry David Thoreau
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature. Clyde Tombaugh
How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. Fred Hoyle
It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement. Ada Lovelace
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Thomas Hobbes
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking. Guglielmo Marconi
The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking.
Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and artificial synthesis. Hermann Emil Fischer
Once a molecule is asymmetric, its extension proceeds also in an asymmetrical sense. This concept completely eliminates the difference between natural and artificial synthesis.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Blaise Pascal
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers. Erwin Chargaff
We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.
A contradiction of the most essential nature of a sentient being, which is to move to pleasure and from pain. Alexander Bain
A contradiction of the most essential nature of a sentient being, which is to move to pleasure and from pain.
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. John Calvin
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature. Ahmed Zewail
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.