#natura

The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#been #began #confident #explain #governed

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#available #case #cultural #ideologies #matter

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#away #before #breaking #felicity #flights

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#hope #human #human mind #mind #natural

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. ↗

— June Jordan

#brother #brother and sister #choke #down #habits

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#evident #expressed #god #laws #less

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers. ↗

— Paul Kantner

#natural #outgrowth #political #reaction #really

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#crisis #distress #feed #forty #grasped

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. ↗

— John Keegan

#eisenhower #english #epitomizes #gentleman #natural

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#asking #because #course #determines #doctor