Nature Quotes

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

18018 quotes

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"We have become estranged from nature by our cleverness."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Nature abhors a definition."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Nature is the greatest teacher if we know how to listen."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Nature is more subtle than we imagine, more intricate than we can devise."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Nature guards her secrets carefully, but she reveals them to those who ask the right questions."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Nature laughs at our attempts to control her."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."
Wigner, Eugene
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"In nature, nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Nature is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
Bohr, Niels
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"Nature whispers her secrets only to those who listen carefully."
Bohr, Niels
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"The patterns of nature repeat at every scale."
Bohr, Niels
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"One should look for what is simple and obvious in nature."
Dirac, Paul
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"The gravitational field is produced by the presence of matter and its energy."
Dirac, Paul
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"Nature has its own logic, and we must learn to speak it."
Dirac, Paul
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"Nature does not reveal her secrets easily, but she is always logical."
Dirac, Paul
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"The universe is under no obligation to match our preconceptions."
Dirac, Paul
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"Nature is not arbitrary; every detail has a reason."
Dirac, Paul
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"The wind and the stars talked about the light."
Einstein, Albert
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"Nature speaks to us in the language of mathematics."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Symmetry principles guide the laws of nature."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The language of nature is mathematics, not words."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Symmetry is a guide to the laws of nature."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The universe speaks in geometric forms."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Nature is far stranger and more beautiful than our wildest imaginings."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The interconnectedness of natural phenomena is one of science's deepest mysteries."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Nature speaks to those who have learned her language of mathematics and observation."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Physics reveals that the universe is fundamentally interconnected and interdependent."
Wigner, Eugene
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"Nature is unconcerned with our logical methods and classifications."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Nature is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his enormous size."
Schrödinger, Erwin