Aware Quote by David Gross

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

— Seneca the Younger

Man is nature's sole mistake.

— Anonymous

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by…

— R.G. Collingwood

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

— Philippe de Commines

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

— Henry David Thoreau

In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how…

— Wilder Penfield

We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are…

— Epicurus

“The scientist does not study Nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because…

— Marcus du Sautoy

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

— Thomas Noon Talfourd

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems…

— Jacques Monod

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

— Henry David Thoreau