#natur

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#human nature #instinctively #nature #obscurity #ordinariness

Nature hath given not only to the highest, but also to the inferior, classes of the people of this nation, a boldness and confidence in speaking and answering, even in the presence of their princes and chieftains. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#answering #boldness #classes #confidence #even

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#civilization #engineering #forces #good #long

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#anything #case #christians #defines #design

You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. ↗

— William Cavendish

#airs #art #disposition #else #follow

But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature. ↗

— William Cavendish

#consider #form #him #horse #may

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#being #deep #enough #everywhere #heart

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake? ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#advance #asked #attack #days #disaster

From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#broad #coast #defense #duties #guard