Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"To understand nature, one must sometimes abandon reason and embrace vision."
August Kekulé
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"Nature speaks to us in a language older than words."
August Kekulé
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"Nature is the supreme artist, and we are but humble students of her craft."
August Kekulé
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"The circles and spirals of nature are echoes of eternal principles."
August Kekulé
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"The symmetries of nature are not accidental but reflect profound principles of order."
August Kekulé
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"Nature's solutions are always more elegant than those born from force and pressure."
August Kekulé
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"The rings and chains of atoms mirror the great cycles of nature and time."
August Kekulé
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"The structure of matter suggests a universe of underlying harmony."
August Kekulé
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"Nature is not to be conquered but understood through humble observation and wild imagination."
August Kekulé
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"This beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent being."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"The study of nature is our proper occupation."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Who can deny that among the phenomena of nature are some the most wonderful and inexplicable?"
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Nature presents to us an infinite complication."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Nature speaks to us in a mathematical voice."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"The simplicity of nature is not that of emptiness but that of unity in multiplicity."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Nature is the most refined of all calculators."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Nature guards her secrets jealously from the curious."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Nature always tends towards her greatest perfection."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Nature compels us to acknowledge her infinite complexity."
Pierre-Simon Laplace
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"Each discovery is a conversation between the observer and the observed."
Caroline Herschel
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"The heavens have no opinions about who observes them; they simply reveal themselves."
Caroline Herschel
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"The night sky was my teacher, my companion, and my vindication."
Caroline Herschel
"The heavens declare what the eye alone cannot measure."
William Herschel
"Nature speaks in the language of mathematics to those patient enough to listen."
William Herschel
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"Nature does not proceed by leaps; she makes her changes gradually and by small degrees."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"In every phenomenon of nature, there is a lesson for the attentive observer."
Antoine Lavoisier
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"Nature speaks in numbers; chemistry is merely learning her language."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"The elements do not care about our theories; they simply are."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"The periodic law shows us that nature prefers order to chaos."
Dmitri Mendeleev
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"The universe does not require our permission to be logical and orderly."
Dmitri Mendeleev