#natura

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ↗

— Red Auerbach

#natural #need #plants #pruning #study

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#education #glory #man #more #natural

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#die #infant #little #natural #other

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting. ↗

— Tom Baker

#comfort #drink #exciting #fantasy #get

It is natural to try to understand one's own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#forces #move #natural #own #seek

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. ↗

— Count Basie

#definite #fast #had #i #jazz

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#best #cannot #century #deal #designed

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. ↗

— Michael Behe

#avoid #conclusions #must #often #said

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#anything #arise #biological #complex #function

This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe. ↗

— Michael Behe

#beginning #creation #distant #event #expanding