A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. Joshua Reynolds copiergreatmere Change image and share on social
People want to typecast you; it's human nature. Stacy Keach humannaturepeople Change image and share on social
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. John Barton forminquirynature Change image and share on social
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away. Archilochus boastcastcourage Change image and share on social
I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time. Greg Graffin admiredarwingreat share on social
It is fortunate, I think, that nature is not bounded by human reason and by laboratory work and experimentation, for by the laws of pure reason and by microscopic investigation, it might easily have been proved, long before this, that children could not be born. Maria Montessori bearboundchild share on social
The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature. Lewis Thomas arrivecentralclaim Change image and share on social
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. Havelock Ellis agodisappearhand Change image and share on social
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. Steven Pinker claritycommoncommunism share on social
