Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Planck

Nature prefers the more probable states to the less probable because in nature processes take place in the direction of greater probability. Heat goes from a body at higher temperature to a body at lower temperature because the state of equal temperature distribution is more probable than a state of unequal temperature distribution.

Max Planck

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

Max Planck

An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Max Planck

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

May Sarton

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

Maya Angelou

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

Matthew Arnold

Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.

Matthew Arnold

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Maya Angelou

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Max Beerbohm

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

Max Beerbohm

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Marilynne Robinson

Well, but you two are dancing around in your iridescent little downpour, whooping and stomping as sane people ought to do when they encounter a thing so miraculous as water.

Maria Montessori

In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.

Maria Montessori

in nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed.

Matsuo Basho

The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.

Matsuo Basho

Calm and serene The sound of a cicada Penetrates the rock.

Mary Webb

No accident of environment or circumstance need cut us off from nature. ... It does not matter how shut in we are. Opportunity for wide experience is of small acccount in this as in other things; it is depth that brings understanding and life.

Mary Webb

Who can say which is the greater sign of creative power, the sun with its planet system swinging with governed impetus to some incalculable end, or the gold sallow catkin with its flashing system of little flies?

Mary Webb

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Mary Webb

The love of nature is a passion for those in whom it once lodges. It can never be quenched. It cannot change. It is a furious, burning, physical greed, as well as a state of mystical exaltation. It will have its own.

Philip Warren Anderson

Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not anything "magical" but the right attitude, the focus on nature's reality, the focus on asking the right questions, the willingness to try (and to discard) unconventional answers, the sensitive ear for phoniness, self-deception, bombast, and conventional but unproven assumptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Lisa Kleypas

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

John Updike

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind.

John Stuart Mill

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

John Stuart Mill

Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.

John Stuart Mill

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

James Jeans

Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical spectacles. Just as a man wearing blue spectacles would see only a blue world, so Kant thought that, with our mental bias, we tend to see only a mathematical world.

Martin Luther

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Martin Luther

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Philip James Bailey

Nature means Necessity.

Philip James Bailey

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

Philip James Bailey

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.