We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Quotes
Nature resolves everything into its component elements, but annihilates nothing.
—Lucretius, c. 57 BCThe temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Basho, c. 1690A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851Nature is the art of God.
—Thomas Browne, 1635Nature never breaks her own laws.
—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500Men argue, nature acts.
—Voltaire, 1764Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCI always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.
—Martin Luther