Nature & World Sayings

343 sayings found from 343 authors

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.

— Sappho c. 7th-6th Century BCE
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The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

— Li Bai c. 701-762 CE
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The city has fallen: only the hills and rivers remain. In Spring the streets were green with grass and trees.

— Du Fu c. 757 CE
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Resist your temptation to lie. By speaking of separation from God, Otherwise, We might have to medicate. You. In the ocean.

— Hafez c. 1325-1390 CE
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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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We are all different, but we share the same human spirit. Perhaps it's human nature that we adapt and survive.

— Stephen Hawking 2013
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We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive.

— Antoine Lavoisier 1789
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The diameter of the Earth is greater than the diameter of the Moon and the diameter of the Sun is greater than the diameter of the Earth.

— Archimedes 3rd century BCE
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Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

— Alexander Fleming 1940s
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The most beautiful flowers are often found in the most obscure places.

— Edward Jenner c. 1780s
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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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Our brains are machines.

— Francis Crick 1994
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The web is a global brain, and we need to make sure it's a healthy one.

— Tim Berners-Lee 2017
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Nature loves simplicity and unity.

— Gregor Mendel 1860s
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I have no need of proof; the laws of nature, unlike the laws of grammar, admit of no exception.

— Dmitri Mendeleev 1871
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We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready to set sail for the stars.

— Carl Sagan 1980
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