Nature - Quotes
Every one who is seriously engaged in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous
Our bodies are programmed to consume fat and sugars because they're rare in nature... In the same way, we're biologically programmed to be attentive to things that stimulate: content that is gross, violent, or sexual and that gossip which is humiliating, embarrassing, or offensive. If we're not careful, we're going to develop the psychological equivalent of obesity. We'll find ourselves consuming content that is least beneficial for ourselves or society as a whole. Just as the factory farming system that produces and delivers our food shapes what we eat, the dynamics of our media shape what information we consume.
The more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become.
The nature of promises is that they remain immune to changing circumstances.
Surprise is inherent in the structure of the world. Nature can throw us surprises for which no amount of knowledge would have prepared us.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.