Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Blaise Pascal

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.
William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard P. Feynman

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
Ansel Adams

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero