Astronomy Quote by Annie Dillard

“...nature starts many more projects than she can ever finish.”

— Ariel Levy

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall.”

— Tony Moyle

“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Man and not nature initiates, but nature in large measure controls.”

— Halford John Mackinder

“Nature is not designed to satisfy our personal longings. Nature is what she is, and it’s a privilege merely to be privy to her…

— John Brockman

“We should turn resolutely towards Nature.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Nature is not tailored to man. It exists for itself.”

— John Smelcer

“In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.”

— Emil M. Cioran

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

— William Shakespeare

“Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature.”

— Bryant McGill