#natur

Jack London and Ernest Hemingway, confidence swaggering into the storm: Man against Nature. Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#education

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ↗

— Walt Disney

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For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature. ↗

— Ann Druyan

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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. ↗

— Will Durant

#declaration #independence #make #nature #never

Nature has always had more force than education. ↗

— Voltaire

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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. ↗