Constraints Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Nature seems to look after her own only up to a certain point; beyond that they are supposed to fend for themselves.

— Hal Borland

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so…

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

— Herman Melville

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

— Jacob Bronowski

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

— Gertrude Atherton

Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.

— Brian Greene

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.

— Charles Kingsley

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...

— Seneca the Younger