"We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing."
"It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
"Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."
"Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me."
"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature."
"I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line."
"I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency."
"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."
"It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature."
"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values."
"The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature."
"Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil."
"Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature."
"Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature."
"Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful."
"To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature."
"The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution."
"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."
"Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is."
"All men by nature desire knowledge."
"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."
"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."