Nature Quote by D.H. Lawrence

This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“THE PEERLESS PRODIGIES OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AND GREAT PRESENTATION OF MARVELOUS LIVING HUMAN CURIOSITIES”

— Frederick Drimmer

Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going,…

— Cecelia Ahern

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability…

— Branch Rickey

I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

— Isaac Newton

“Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies…

— Marcello Malpighi

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

— Ernst Fischer

“It is remarkable how quickly extraordinary things turn ordinary.”

— Nathan Hill

However a skillful man is at making his machine but the forces of nature are not to be taken slightly.

— Anonymous

“I've always questioned the so-called perfection of surfaces. If you looked close enough, there was always a flaw.”

— Amy Talkington

As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my…

— Laura van den Berg

“It takes a kind of arrogance to think everything in the world can be measured and weighed with our scientific instruments.”

— Eowyn Ivey