Anatomy Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I devour nature ceaselessly. I exaggerate, sometimes I make changes in the subject; but still I don't invent the whole picture. On the contrary,…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

— Charles Baudelaire

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

— Democritus

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

— Philippe de Commines

And Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences, whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and…

— Thomas Jefferson

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

— David Hume

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

— Henry Fielding

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its…

— Henry Beston

“Science embodies the human desire to understand nature; technology couples that desire with the ambition to control nature.”

— Siddhartha Muker

Nature is what you see plus what you think about it.

— John French Sloan

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science…

— Henry David Thoreau

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson