Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Plato
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil... →
Edgar Allan Poe
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare
If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and... →
A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of... →
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same... →
I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
Sidney Poitier
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of... →
John Polkinghorne