Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

Ezra Pound

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Eugene Wigner

The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised an artifice which permits the complicated nature of the world to be blamed on something which is called accidental and thus permits him to abstract a domain in which simple laws can be found.

Francis Bacon

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

Francis Bacon

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Francis Bacon

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Francis Bacon

Art is man added to Nature.

Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

I don't take these things lightly. I don't make allegations of this nature unless there is something to suggest that something smells.

Gabriel Basso

I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.

Jerome K. Jerome

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

Jamais Cascio

Entrepreneurs need to recognize that, especially in the digital domain, they are unlikely to come up with something that is going to be permanently on top, that impermanence and ephemerality is the nature of the beast.

Anna Jameson

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.

The wonderful thing about nature is its resilience,

Larry Johnson

We just started our investigation, ... The SBI is here now, and it is suspicious in nature.

When allegations of such a serious nature have been made, they need to be probed. If nothing comes out, then that will be the end of it. We are only trying to find out the truth.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.

Harmon Killebrew

I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back. She breaks through every obstacle, pushes forward, and at last makes for herself a way.

Nicolas Chamfort

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

Nikos Kazantzakis

If only we know, boss, what the stones and rain and flowers say. Maybe they call-call us-and we don't hear them. When will people's ears open, boss? When shall we have our eyes open to see? When shall we open our arms to embrace everything-stones, rain, flowers, and people? What do you think about that, boss? And what do your books have to say about that?

Niels Bohr

When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.'

Niels Bohr

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

Morris West

I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

Ray Bradbury

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

Rand Paul

Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?