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" I have an interest in understanding evil. Who is the bad guy - the vampire who kills people and sucks their blood, or the survivalists who kill people to save their own lives? Is evil merely a creation of people? Or is there an evil nature? Or is it in the eye of the beholder? I really like these questions. "

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" The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. "

Steven Pinker

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" We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. "

Albert Einstein

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Know

" Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. "

" Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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" Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development. "

" For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. "

" There's no night without stars. "

" Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. "

" String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect. "

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" The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor. "

" Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. "

" Management did not emanate from nature. Management is not a tree: it's a television set. Somebody invented it. It doesn't mean it's going to work forever. Management is great. Traditional notions of management are great if you want compliance. But if you want engagement, self-direction works better. "

" The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. "

" The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass. "

" Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. "

" We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. "

" Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. "

" I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. "

" None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath. "

" Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. "

" Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. "

" All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. "

" I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. "

" The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. "

" The poetry of the earth is never dead. "

" It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that. "

" The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. "

" It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. "

" Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature. "