Best 1347 quotes in «natural quotes» category

Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommodate great and small.

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

Public health is purchasable. Within a few natural and important limitations any community can determine its own health.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure.

Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

Some people are a natural administrator. They actually enjoy doing it. I find it a chore. I'm not a details person. I go for the big sweep.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

States with tremendous oil and natural gas reserves have the most to gain economically from proper regulation.

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

That's the most comfortable place for me. In the beginning, yes, I was nervous going on stage. I was not a natural performer. I really had to acquire that skill.

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

The constitution of the United States declares that "no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.

The country that's been most successful at that is Norway. The more typical countries are those in the Middle East where a small group seizes those resources, uses it to buy arms to make sure that they can oppress the remainder, and you get these great inequalities. So Canada is among the better performing of the natural resource economies, but it's still not up to the best performing.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Recognize that it is natural and normal to fear rejection. The only thing wrong with it is if you allow the fear to dominate you so that it holds you back from fulfilling your potential in your business.

Rejection is the natural course of things.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.