Nature Quotes

Mountains, oceans, and everything growing in between. The natural world as teacher and mirror.

18018 quotes

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"Nature is the standard by which all things are measured."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Nature's principles are eternal and unchanging."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Nature's order is reflected in every living thing."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"Nature's complexity is built on hereditary simplicity."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"The organism is nature's expression of hereditary potential."
Wilhelm Johannsen
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"The molecular basis of life demonstrates nature's elegance."
Oswald Avery
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"Heredity connects us to all living things across time."
Oswald Avery
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"In the laboratory, nature reveals her mechanisms to the patient observer."
Oswald Avery
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"Heredity connects us to deep time and distant ancestors."
Oswald Avery
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"Heredity reveals that we are not islands but links in a chain of being."
Oswald Avery
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"The cell carries within it the memory of evolution and the potential of the future."
Oswald Avery
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"Heredity demonstrates that nature is both orderly and creative."
Oswald Avery
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"Heredity is the conversation of life across the generations."
Oswald Avery
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"To understand ourselves, we must first humble ourselves before nature's simplest creatures."
Sydney Brenner
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"Nature does not reveal her secrets to the impatient or the arrogant."
Sydney Brenner
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"Every experiment is a conversation with nature; we must listen carefully to what it tells us."
Alfred Hershey
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"The viral genome is a masterpiece of evolutionary engineering."
Alfred Hershey
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"The complexity of the genome mirrors the complexity of life itself."
Alfred Hershey
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"The study of nature reveals the infinite wisdom of creation."
Hermann Muller
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"The natural world offers countless lessons to the attentive observer."
Hermann Muller
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"Nature's complexity surpasses human imagination in every discovery."
Hermann Muller
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"Nature operates on principles humans are only beginning to understand."
Hermann Muller
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"To understand nature, we must first accept that we do not understand it."
Max Delbrück
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"Nature has no use for our theories; she follows her own logic."
Max Delbrück
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"In nature's design, there is no waste, only purpose we have yet to understand."
Max Delbrück
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"Nature's experiments have been running for four billion years; we are merely reading her notes."
Max Delbrück
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"Nature does not ask for permission; she simply evolves."
Max Delbrück
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"In the study of life, we discover that we are not separate from nature; we are nature."
Max Delbrück
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"Nature's intelligence is not in planning but in responding; she is perfectly adaptive."
Max Delbrück
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"In every organism, we see both the brutality and the elegance of evolution."
Max Delbrück