Nature Quotes

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."

"The idea that nature is determined down to the smallest detail is inconsistent with experience."

"If nature were simple, it would have been understood long ago."

"The laws of nature are not commands but permissions."

"Nature will not accommodate itself to human wishful thinking."

"The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived notions. We must let nature tell us how it behaves."

"The possibilities offered by nature are infinitely varied in their manifestations."

"The universe is a vast cosmos of law and order."

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would have remained microbes forever."

"Is nature not merely a system of equilibria?"

"The laws which nature obeys are the causes of the phenomena we observe."

"Nature is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose."

"The beauty of nature reveals the presence of God."

"The universe expands as if it has a mind of its own."

"I go along with the molecules."

"Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical."

"In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself—nature does it for you."

"The existence of life in the universe depends upon a certain delicate balance of physical constants."

"Nature is bigger than we think it is, and we are never quite finished learning its lessons."

"We are all connected through the fabric of the atom."

"Nature reveals her secrets not all at once, but gradually as we learn to ask better questions."

"Nature does not give up her secrets easily; she rewards the persistent and the clever."

"Nature rewards curiosity with revelation."

"The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece."

"Symmetry is the idea which man through the ages has continually grasped at; it is only half successfully grasped that it has been the most potent principle for the understanding of nature."

"The symmetries of nature are not accidents; they are the deepest truths about reality."

"In the architecture of nature, every stone is placed with purpose."

"The continuum resists our attempts to cage it in finite descriptions."

"A human being is a part of the universe, limited in time and space."

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."