Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in…

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

— Garrison Keillor

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your…

— John Taylor Gatto

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

— Mark Twain

I'd like to see what fraction of things that chemists have figured out we could actually teach nature to do. Then we really could…

— Frances Arnold

“In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, as far…

— Niels Bohr

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

— Graham Swift

In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far…

— Niels Bohr

Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life -…

— Hans Hofmann

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

— Aristotle

“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course…

— George Saunders

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

— Anatole France

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

— Voltaire

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

— J. C. Ryle

“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside…

— Lauren Oliver