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Nature Quotes by Henri Poincare
- Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen…
- Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose,…
- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes…
- A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great…
- If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living
- It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the…
- One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the…
- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it…
- If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of…
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