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  • Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. -- Albert Einstein
  • It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
  • I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. -- Caspar David Friedrich
  • I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. -- John Burroughs
  • Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being. -- Christopher Dawson
  • I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature. -- Leonard Mlodinow
  • Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature. -- Leroy Chiao
  • In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art. -- Julian Barnes
  • While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. -- Ethan Allen
  • You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else. -- William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
  • The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. -- Johannes Kepler
  • I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining in it as permanent and universal as in the material world. -- George Edward Woodberry
  • It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order. -- Story Musgrave
  • Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
  • The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular. -- Rudolf Arnheim
  • In order to actually have a touchscreen in front of me and somehow still be connected to nature, I needed to be able to incorporate natural elements into the song structures. Because that's always been my song-writing accompaniment: nature. -- Bjork
  • Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words. -- Northrop Frye
  • I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain. -- Eric Kandel
  • Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. -- Henry Adams
  • Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man... -- Anonymous
  • Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. -- Immanuel Kant
  • In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal. -- John Burroughs
  • .... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them. -- C. S. Lewis
  • The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. -- H. P. Blavatsky
  • The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. -- H. P. Blavatsky
  • Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur. -- Georges Vantongerloo
  • And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped. -- Sri Aurobindo
  • The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
  • In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons. -- Herodotus
  • In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery. -- Herman Melville
  • I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive. -- Neil Gaiman
  • Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught. -- Claude Monet
  • Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation. -- Theodore Levitt
  • It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. -- Rudolf Carnap
  • In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her. -- Paul Cezanne
  • In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature. -- Bruce Lee
  • If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order. -- Vinoba Bhave
  • Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention. -- Ian McHarg
  • Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. -- Edward Teller
  • If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • . . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature. -- Hugh Jackman
  • One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave. -- John Gardner
  • Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order. -- Gary Snyder
  • In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. -- Herodotus
  • In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. -- Herodotus
  • I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that i finally obey. -- Albert Camus
  • You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away? -- Shunryu Suzuki
  • To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature. -- Henry Edward Manning
  • Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
  • The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds. -- Francis Bacon
  • I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and the seasons... -- Sidney Poitier
  • For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom. -- William Shakespeare
  • Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. -- Chief Seattle
  • We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being. -- Ernest Becker
  • Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal. -- John G. Lake
  • The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion. -- R.J. Rushdoony
  • To be the agent whose touch changes nature from a wild force to a work of art is inspiration of the highest order. -- Robert Rodale
  • The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. -- Albert Camus
  • Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. -- Chief Seattle
  • Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels. -- Saint Augustine
  • There is no quality so contrary to any nature which one cannot affect, and put on upon occasion, in order to serve an interest. -- Jonathan Swift
  • The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection. -- Northrop Frye
  • Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God; and defects, to show that she is only his image. -- Blaise Pascal
  • The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. -- Francis Bacon
  • Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole. -- Arthur Eddington
  • There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature. -- Maria Montessori
  • We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature. -- Allen W. Wood
  • Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order. -- James Cagney
  • Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site. -- Wolf Kahn
  • Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions. -- Henri Matisse
  • Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness? -- Elie Wiesel
  • The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable. -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature -- Guido von List
  • One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better. -- Isaac Asimov
  • In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of nature and creation as well -- Alberto Villoldo
  • Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices. -- Seth Lloyd
  • Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself -- C. S. Lewis
  • We do not need to be able to say what "human nature" is in order to be able to say that some training is "against human nature. -- Paul Goodman
  • Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature. -- Albert Camus
  • The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. -- Albert Einstein
  • Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order. -- Augustus William Hare
  • For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
  • Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease. -- Paul Valery
  • Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul. -- James Mark Baldwin
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