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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have…
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must…
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A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both.…
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You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For a general…
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I cannot afford to waste my time making money
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In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,…
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When chemists have brought their knowledge out of their special laboratories into the laboratory of the world, where chemical combinations are and…
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I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who…
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I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is…
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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over,…
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The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are…
— Louis Agassiz
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To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in…
— Joseph Addison
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Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends.…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.
— Unknown Author
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Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
— John Milton
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There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her…
— Walter Savage Landor
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I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works…
— Esther Dyson
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Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so…
— Michel de Montaigne
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