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Nature Quotes by Chauncey Wright
- The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills…
- Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and…
- Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies…
- In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater