Nature Quotes - Page 136

The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.

Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.

It is most important to have time alone. To be alone is not to be alone. It is only possible to truly feel immortality when we are by ourselves.

The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this purpose he requires that an exact measurement may be taken in an equally invariable manner anywhere in the world... Also, the history of electricity yields a well-known truth-that the physicist shirking measurement only plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and the construction of his toys.

It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.

If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.

Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

The career of flowers differs from ours only inaudibleness.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.

Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.