Animals Quote by Vaclav Smil

There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and…

— Margaret Geller

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social…

— Ian Hacking

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But…

— David Christian

To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

— Auguste Comte

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves

— Werner Heisenberg

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of…

— C. V. Raman

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

— Micky Dolenz

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“Natural science is either the description of forms (morphology) or the explanation of changes (etiology). Neither can afford us the information we chiefly desire.”

— Anonymous

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

— Johann Georg Hamann

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed. Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator…

— Antoine Lavoisier

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

— Rachel Carson