Accounts Quote by James Hutton

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

— Immanuel Kant

Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask…

— Carolyn Porco

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear…

— Joseph Hertz

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals…

— Carlos Castaneda

The laws of nature are written deep in the folds and faults of the earth. By encouraging men to learn those laws one can…

— John Joseph Lynch

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

I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by…

— Louis Agassiz

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

— Vladimir Lenin

“Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God"...”

— William Cowper

Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law…

— William Blackstone

“Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden…

— James Allen

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume