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Nature Quotes by Richard Dawkins
- Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be…
- Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends.…
- In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
- I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about…
- I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it.…
- Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in…
- The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it? Carl Sagan, I…
- The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward…
- Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
- After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
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