Scientists can talk about human nature,but only poets can…

In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

— Kate Braverman

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

— Christian Wiman

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

— Simone Weil

“There are other, savager, and more primeval aspects of Nature than our poets have sung. It is only white man's poetry. Homer and Ossian…

— Henry David Thoreau

The more scientists I talk to, the less I believe in UFOs.

— James Doohan

WE ARE HUMANS. WE ARE NOT PERFECT. WE ARE ALIVE. WE TRY THINGS. WE MAKE MISTAKES. WE STUMBLE. WE FALL. WE GET HURT. WE…

— Anonymous

“If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED.”

— Silvia Hartmann

“Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us…

— Abhijit Naskar

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave…

— Morton Irving Seiden

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all…

— Dale Carnegie

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.

— Benjamin Haydon

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

— John Dewey

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

— Jean-Paul Sartre