“Da Vinci was as great a mechanic and inventor as were Newton and his friends. Yet a glance at his notebooks shows us that what fascinated him about nature was its variety, its infinite adaptability, the fitness and the individuality of all its parts. By contrast what made astronomy a pleasure to Newton was its unity, its singleness, its model of a nature in which the diversified parts were mere disguises for the same blank atoms.” MadeShowsScienceNatureNaturalPleasureModelsInfiniteUnityMereIndividualityAstronomyVarietyAtomsFascinatedContrastBlankDisguiseGlancesMechanicInventorNotebookNewtonAdaptabilitySingleness Book:The Common Sense of Science Source: The Common Sense of Science
“If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.” IfsDoeSeemsGivenNaturalGolfIndividualityHolesSubtleArtifice Author:A. W. Tillinghast
“It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsMeanLittlesIndividualSpeakGivenNaturalInterestingGroupsPrayingSolitudeSpeechIndividualityPainfulEloquenceCommunes Book:As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980 Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980
“We humans are herd animals of the monkey tribe, not natural individuals as lions are. Our individuality is partial and restless; the stream of consciousness that we call 'I' is made of shifting elements that flow from our group and back to our group again. Always we seek to be ourselves and the herd together, not One against the herd.” HumansMadeTogetherIndividualNaturalAnimalConsciousnessGroupsElementsFlowIndividualityStreamsLionsTribesMonkeysRestlessShiftingHerdsStream Of Consciousness Author:Anna Louise Strong
“The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the child to develop--in his own good time--to the fullest, into what he wishes to be and can be, in line with his natural endowment and as the consequence of his unique life in history.” GivingTryingChildrenHelpingDesireWishParentNaturalLinesUniqueConsequenceIndividualityGood TimesEndowmentUnique LifeNatural Endowment Author:Bruno Bettelheim
“The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot.” WorldWantInspirationalSelfNaturalTroubleIndividualityRobots Author:Rajneesh