Nature Quotes - Page 13

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

I knew that we would obtain it, I thought that what I had dreamed, had no reason to be complied.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

... nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout.

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.

[Stating how planets supporting life cannot be rare.]

A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.

Nature has no originality-I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats-repeats-repeats-repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true.

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind.

The honeybee, Apis mellifera, is a species on the cusp of culture and nature … If we’re to seriously improve honeybee health and with it our own wellbeing, we need to make the most of this timely opportunity to realise a more interconnected approach to agriculture and ecology.

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

There can be no law of nature, no science,
No aberrant infliction of human will
That unchained the soul cannot conquer,
Simply sweep away, should it chose to.

My body was a buzzing antenna into which radio waves flooded from the entire cosmos. I was the living switchboard of the universe. My skull was a magnetized globe.

Our mistakes are legion, but our talent is immeasurable.

Spring procreates, Summer develops, Autumn debilitates & Winter ceases to be. Meeting all forms of life.

There are things people don’t understand. And they do what they want. There are rules that are not meant to be broken.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.