Attention Quote by John Herschel

We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler

“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by ignoring the…

— Aldous Huxley

“Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little:…

— Jean Fresnel

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

— Albertus Magnus

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

— Louis Agassiz

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only…

— Philip Johnson

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do…

— Isaac Newton

“It was perhaps inevitable that a reverence for all things ‘scientific’ should be accompanied by some scorn for ‘natural’ processes.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation. We must…

— Viktor Schauberger

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate…

— Henry John Stephen Smith