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"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
"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."	Annie Dillard
"Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world."	Macneile Dixon
"The best way of travel, however, if you aren't in any hurry at all, if you don't care where you are going, if you don't like to use your legs, if you don't want to be annoyed at all by any choice of directions, is in a balloon. In a balloon, you can decide only when to start, and usually when to stop. The rest is left entirely to nature."	William Sherman Pene du Bois
"Nature is God's greatest evangelist."	Johathan Edwards
"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."	Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."	Albert Einstein
"Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it."	Albert Einstein
"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us."	Albert Einstein
"It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive."	Albert Einstein
"To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man is related to all nature."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Adopt the pace of nature."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name."	Evan Esar
"Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural."	Philip Jose Farmer
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