Nature’s rules have no exceptions.
—Herbert Spencer, 1851
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857We never are definitely right; we can only be sure we are wrong.
—Richard P. Feynman, 1965Nature is immovable.
—Euripides, c. 415 BCThere is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1790Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BC