Certain Quote by Edward Tufte

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

— Edward Tufte

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

— Galileo Galilei

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

— Francis Bacon

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

— Immanuel Kant

Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information

— Jeremy Campbell

We understand nature by resisting it.

— Gaston Bachelard

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts…

— Niels Bohr

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them;…

— Arthur Eddington

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers…

— Noam Chomsky

Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their…

— Norbert Elias