Quotes on Nature

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all ephemeral creatures (and none more so than I). I have, therefore, for the Glory of God, who wants to be recognized from the book of Nature, that these things may be published as quickly as possible. The more others build on my work the happier I shall be.

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded; that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; _x000D_ What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

For thus the royal mandate ran, When first the human race began, "The social, friendly honest man, Whate'er he be, Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, And none but he!"

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

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

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.