Home / Quotes / Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Nature, red in tooth and claw.”

Author

Alfred Lord Tennyson was a prominent British Romantic poet known for his poetry that depicted nature, love, and heroism. His works, including 'In Memoriam A.H.H.' and 'Ulysses', are celebrated for their beauty and depth of emotion. more

“No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.”

Ifs Has Beens Science Asks Nature Natural Answers Views Fields Connections Refuse Convinced Trials Logical Aphorism Mistaken Topics Questionnaires

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.”

Law Science Nature Natural Accomplished Leap Maxims Continuity

Book:New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen

Source: New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen

“Nothing is lost and nothing is created in the operations of art as those of nature.”

Art Science Lost Nature Creation Operations

Author:Louis Pasteur

“Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention and a goal, this power, finally, that always does necessarily the same things in the same circumstances and nevertheless does so many and such admirable ones, is what we call 'nature' .”

Doe Action Science Goal Nature Natural Circumstances Intention Attributes Nevertheless Admirable

Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.”

“Perhaps we see equations as simple because they are easily expressed in terms of mathematical notation already invented at an earlier stage of development of the science, and thus what appears to us as elegance of description really reflects the interconnectedness of Nature's laws at different levels.”

Different Law Science Term Nature Simple Levels Stage Expression Development Simplicity Mathematical Description Equations Elegance Interconnectedness Different Levels Stages Of Development

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.”

Science Nature Manifestation Admonition Fortuitous

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”

May Lasts Science Scientist Lifetime Technological

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.”

May Persons Science Nature Natural Interesting Secret Gains Concerned Deeper Insight Priorities Insignificance

Author:Lord Kelvin

Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Author

You May Also Like