Chimera Quote by Marc Chagall

“All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual .... The only words that ever…

— G.K. Chesterton

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness…

— Anonymous

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

— Franz Grillparzer

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

— Denise Levertov

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user…

— Eva Figes

Of what I call God, And fools call Nature.

— Robert Browning

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

— Johann Georg Hamann

As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Charles Sanders Peirce

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope…

— Richard P. Feynman

“I believe in God, only I call it nature.”

— Frank Loyd Wright

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

— Alan S. Kesselheim