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"My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests."
"The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyone the sculpted flower."
"How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!"
"What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how."
"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can."
"Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe."
"Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations."
"The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end."
"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."
"Every object in nature is impressed with God's footsteps, and every day repeats the wonders of creation. There is not an object, be it pebble or pearl, weed or rose, the flower-spangled sward beneath, or the star-spangled sky above, not a worm or an angel, a drop of water or a boundless ocean, in which intelligence may not discern, and piety adore, the providence of Him who took our nature that He might save our souls."
"Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
"God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God."
"Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him."
"I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair."
"Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints."
"Nature abhors annihilation."
"The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite."
"Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature."
"Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve."
"More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us."
