nature Quotes

Change in all things is sweet.

There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in... ...

When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.

But obviously a state which becomes progressively more and more of a unity will cease to be a state at all. Plurality of numbers is natural in a state; and the farther it moves away from plurality towards unity, the... ...

Humans are naturally social and political creatures.

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region,... ...

The worst unfairness is trying to make things equal when they are naturally different.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.