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Nature Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art…
- The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
- Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender…
- Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that…
- Man's Place in Nature.
- There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature.
- The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of…
- To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of…
- Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people…
- Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed…
- Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the…
- The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work…
- The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial…
- Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or…
- The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of…
- Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.
- If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's…
- Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
- It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism…
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