#nature

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#arranged #classified #facts #general #knowledge

There is so much beauty in the world, but you must allow yourself to see it. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#nature #beauty

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. ↗

— Robert Burton

#life #love #morning #nature #night

What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding? ↗

— Kōbō Abe

#beauty

The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#equalize #law #mankind #nature #spite

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#human nature #instinctively #nature #obscurity #ordinariness

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#anything #case #christians #defines #design

Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later. ↗

— John Carmack

#because #clever #competent #extremely #graphics

The obvious point of Conrad’s cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#nature

Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing. ↗

— Billy Boyd

#enjoying #land #like #lot #nature