Quotes about Nature, page 7

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this, and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Quote by Paracelsus about nature

Therefore we should keep an eye on the outward characteristics which nature gives a man by shaping him in a certain way.

Quote by Paracelsus about nature

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about nature

Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.

Quote by Francis Parkman about nature

Custom is our nature, what are our natural principles but principles of custom.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature, why is habit not natural. I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature, as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Our nature consists in motion, complete rest is death.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience

Quote by Blaise Pascal about nature

It is not accidental that all phenomen of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about nature

Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.

Quote by James Payn about nature

In this the similitude is so great, that there is no difference in the nature of the love produced, and that which did produce it.

Quote by John Pearson about nature

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father.

Quote by John Pearson about nature

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Quote by Roger Penrose about nature

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Quote by Pericles about nature