Language Quote by Jean Rostand

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and…

— Immanuel Kant

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a…

— George Eliot

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

— Charles Brenton Huggins

The absolutist takes himself to read nature in her very own language, but the relativist insists that nature does not speak, and we hear…

— Simon Blackburn

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his…

— Francis Bacon

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

— Immanuel Kant

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact…

— Francis Bacon

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

— Francis Bacon

“If we are to succeed in the great task before us we must adopt a humbler attitude towards the elementary things of life than…

— LORD NORTHBOURNE

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons…

— Galileo Galilei

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

— Charles Sanders Peirce