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Nature Quotes by Claude Bernard
- Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by…
- We must alter theory to adapt it to nature, but not nature to adapt it to theory.
- Real science exists, then, only from the moment when a phenomenon is accurately defined as to its nature and rigorously determined in relation to its…
- We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible.
- In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must…
- With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot…
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle