Nature & World Sayings

140 sayings found from the Modern era from 140 authors

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

— Alan Turing 1950
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A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.

— Ataturk (Mustafa Kemal) Approximate
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The seas of the four directions – all are born of one womb: why, then, do the wind and waves rise in discord?

— Meiji Emperor Late 19th - early 20th century
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Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.

— Leon Trotsky Unknown, likely 1920s-1930s
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When the water is high, the fish eat the ants. When the water recedes, the ants eat the fish.

— Pol Pot c. 1979
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Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't satisfactory.

— Mark Twain c. 1909 (written), 1962 (published posthumously)
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Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on the top at last.

— Joseph Smith 1843
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It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

— Edgar Allan Poe Undated (common attribution)
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Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

— Charles Darwin 1859
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The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

— Nikola Tesla 1919
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I have been thinking about the nature of things, and I have come to the conclusion that there is a good deal of it.

— James Clerk Maxwell Circa 1850s
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Man is an animal who is constantly striving to rise to a higher altitude.

— Alexander Graham Bell Unknown
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We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

— Werner Heisenberg 1955 (Physics and Philosophy)
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The scientist's task is to find the laws of nature, not to invent them.

— Max Planck Unknown
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The human organism is a highly ordered and organized system, which maintains its order by continually drawing order from its environment.

— Erwin Schrodinger 1944
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The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely large.

— Louis Pasteur 1878
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Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

— Michael Faraday 1850
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The game is to find out how nature works.

— Richard Feynman 1981
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Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

— Alexander Fleming 1940s
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The more evidence I collect, the closer I feel to understanding the true nature of DNA.

— Rosalind Franklin c. 1952
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