#nature

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#end #grounds #laws #may #nature

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#humblest #nature #painter #scholar #scholars

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bias #ideology #religion #nature

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#achieve #against #goodness #little #mere

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#any #damaging #deliberately #did #distorting

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#believe #eloquent #hardly #learned #many

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income. ↗

— Dee Hock

#business #closest #closest thing #expense #form

To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature. ↗

— David Hockney

#especially #look #me #nature #rather

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#being #collect #collecting #eat #extravagance