N Quotes
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“Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.”
“Natural laws admit of no exceptions.”
“Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.”
“Natural light deficiency is a biological hazard when countries lock down their populations.”
“Natural light deficiency is prevalent in the prison population.”
“Natural light is a free gift from God. Don't waste it.”
Source: The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful
“Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.”
Source: Tristes Tropiques
“Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.”
“Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.”
“Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.”
“Natural,my ass! The worst poison known to man comes from a tree frog in South America. You cannot imagine how small an amount would be necessary to kill you.and it's natural.Calling something NATURAL is a MEANINGLESS MARKETING PLOY."
"All right,calm down! Maybe I like alternative medicine because it's been in use for more than six thousand years.After all that time,they have to know what they're doing."
"You mean the wacky idea that somehow in the distant past people had more scientific wisdom than they do today?That's both crazy and counterintuitive.Six thousand years ago people thought thunder was a bunch of gods moving around furniture."
-Conversation btw Dr.Jack Stapleton and Vinnie”
Source: Intervention
“Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.”
“Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.”
Source: Husserl, shorter works
“Natural order is pregnant with potentially great answers. Chaos is only fertile when it produces answers to achieving natural order”
“Natural, organic and unrefined foods speak a language your genes understand. And when your food communicates nicely with your genes, they’ll express themselves properly and healthily so you can begin feeling that you’re actually living and not just surviving.”
Source: 10 Years Younger in 10 Weeks
“Natural phenomena teach us so much if we open ourselves to their various interpretations.”
Source: Second Chance
“Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation. We must understand Nature before we can adapt its way of working to our needs.”
Source: Living Water
“Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.”
“Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.”
Source: First In His Class: A Biography Of Bill Clinton
“Natural radiation is my best friend and unnatural radiation is my worst enemy.”
“Natural Redheads Rock!”
“Natural religion itself, seems to decay very much. Many will have human souls to be material: others make God himself a corporeal being.”
Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays
“Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.”
“Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower.”
“Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.”
“Natural rights are rights people have by virtue of their humanity. Because natural rights arise from our nature as humans, they precede governments and they render humans fundamentally equal. When governments enact laws to treat people equally under the law, they are not bestowing equality. They are protecting the innate equality that exists regardless of whether particular governments choose to respect it.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis
“Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.”
“Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.”
“Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,-the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.”
“Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.”
“Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”
Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works
“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves”
“Natural Sciences are all about fascinating causality.”
Source: What is Mind?
“Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
“Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material.”
“Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.”
“Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.”
Source: THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
“Natural selection does not give any preference at all to anything that, in the long run, could be advantageous for the species but blindly rewards everything that, momentarily, affords greater procreative success.”
“Natural selection doesn't plan for the future, it only works in the present, to adapt organisms to their immediate circumstances.”
Source: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
“Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.”
“Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.”
“Natural selection,” in the Darwinian sense, could not explain the miraculous coincidence of imitative aspect and imitative behavior, nor could one appeal to the theory of “the struggle for life” when a protective device was carried to a point of mimetic subtlety, exuberance, and luxury far in excess of a predator’s power of appreciation. I discovered in nature the nonutilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intricate enchantment and deception.”
Source: Speak, Memory
“Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.”
Source: Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine
“Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.”
“Natural selection is a strong enough theory to be predictive in this fashion, now that science no longer needs convincing of its truth.”
Source: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
“Natural selection is a theory of local adaptation to changing environments. It proposes no perfecting principles, no guarantee of general improvement”
Source: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
“Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design