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“Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”

Evil Literature Nature Principles Distinction Good And Evil Good Evil

Author:Anatole France

“The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.”

States Universe Nature Change Principles Creative Driving Steady Ongoing Creativeness

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.”

Knows Made Nature Decision Principles Unpredictable Right Decision

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live.”

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Author:Robert Kennedy

“To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.”

Nature Principles Virtue Honor Ambition Glory Perfection Ambitious Incentives My Ambition Life Ambition

Author:Walter Scott

“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”

Inspiration Used Nature Principles Building Manifestation Architect Domain God And Nature God Nature

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

Universe Nature Principles Survival Exception Extinction Influential Exception To The Rule Mass Extinction

Book:The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.”

Mind Nature Principles Masters Consequence Roots Fruit Branches Thrown Grain Good Mind

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple”

Beautiful Science Universe Nature Simple Principles Environment Simplicity Engineering

Author:Albert Einstein

“After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.”

“The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect a little more narrowly these living existences, the only beings worth regarding. How hostile and destructive to each other! How insufficient all of them for their own happiness! How contemptible or odious to the spectator! The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, inpregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive children.”

Source: A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Moral Subjects; and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

“It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”

Source: The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France

“Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions.”

World Book Ends Philosophy Problem Seems Science Force Nature Principles Discovery Mathematics Mathematical Explanation Propositions Forces Of Nature

Book:Newton: Philosophical Writings

Source: Newton: Philosophical Writings

“There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.”

Whole Science Universe Nature Natural Powerful Principles Produce Negative Visible Interaction Bandits

Author:Zhuangzi