#natura

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#acknowledge #authority #blind #blind faith #duties

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#evolutionary #exist #fashioned #going #natural

Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#natural-history #page- #dating

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#been #called #danger #discipline #exist

It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that's when the beast comes out and takes hold of us. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#because #beings #comes #competition #feel

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial. ↗

— David Attenborough

#crucial #natural #natural world #touch #world

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow. ↗

— David Attenborough

#among #competent #creature #extraordinarily #follow

Natural history is not about producing fables. ↗

— David Attenborough

#fables #history #natural #natural history #producing

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#directions #except #experience #forth #give

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. ↗

— Neal Barnard

#accidents #american #automobile #beef #century