| "human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural." »Philip Jose Farmer |
| "It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve" »Galileo Galilei |
| "There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." »Bill Wulf |
| "Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore" »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly." »Anatole France |
| "It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured." »Tacitus |
| "One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." »Walter Bagehot |
| "human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case." »Elisha Potter |
| "You cannot slander human nature it is worse than words can paint it." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." »William James |
| "Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature." »Charles Dickens |
| "History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature." »David Hume |
| "Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." »William Shakespeare |
| "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." »Aristotle |
| "The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Love is that splendid triggering of human vitalitythe supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else." »Jose Ortega y Gasset |
| "nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality." »Kedar Joshi |
| "human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous." »Leonardo DaVinci |
| "Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race." »Henry G. Stott |
| "For Mercy has a human heart, Pity, a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress." »William Blake |
| "There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere." »Jane Austen |
| "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today." »Dale Carnegie |
| "As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility." »Arnold J. Toynbee |
| "CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience" »Jeffrey Vlaming |
| "The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man." »Erich Fromm |
| "You think nature is some Disney movie nature is a killer. nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove." »Samuel Johnson |
| "While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done." »Lao Tzu |
| "In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral." »George Santayana |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
