Distinguished Quote by Joel Garreau

Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“if our conception of human nature is to be altered, it must be by means of truths conforming to the canons of scientific evidence…

— Edward O. Wilson

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it,

— Emmanuel Lubezki

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

— Thomas Szasz

“The human being destroys so many things on his own, and it is not in his power to restore anything. Nature, by contrast, has…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The scientists call it human nature; which is just a fancy term for the God-given flaws we have no intention of giving back.”

— Amor Towles

“Nature is capricious and teaches us not to conform ourselves in the belief that we know and that we can predict or even control.”

— Maya Realm

“We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity…

— Mark Twain

“We as a species have not realized the most precious qualities with which nature has endowed us, the abilities that will enable us to…

— Ilchi Lee

“No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may…

— Brian Herbert

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature…

— Rachel Carson

It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

— Hans Christian Andersen