Ability Quote by Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

— Anonymous

“For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but…

— Meg Jay

We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only ‘naturals’ can acquire certain skills. We imagine that…

— Robert Twigger

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature…

— Galileo Galilei

We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple,…

— David Hume

Increased knowledge of heredity means increased power of control over the living thing, and as we come to understand more and more the architecture…

— Reginald Punnett

“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or plant into…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No…

— Ernst Mach

There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active,…

— Nikola Tesla

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good,…

— Paul Nurse

Nature seems to have treasured up the depth of our mind talents and abilities that we are not aware of; it is the privilege…

— Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt