The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. – Rupert Sheldrake
In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue. – Saint Ignatius
Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental ‘superlaws,’ but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science. – Paul Davies
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. – Paul de Man
The nature of an ensemble means when you’re a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you’re usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something. – Owain Yeoman
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. – Saint Teresa of Avila
I don’t think I’d get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it’s just not in my nature. – Pixie Lott
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. – Quintilian
The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there. – Pierre Schaeffer
I think the attraction of ‘American Idol’ is about the basic human nature attitude that is, ‘We can put you up there. But we can take you down.’ – Quincy Jones
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. – P. D. James
Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual. – Robert Baden-Powell
We’re in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities. – Patrick Whitesell
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go. – Ralph Steadman
I always say, ‘Let your experiment speak to you.’ What I mean by that is I – actually, we, or, at least, I’m not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on. – Roderick MacKinnon
I’ve summarized dozens of books in my literary career; it’s become rather second nature. – Rick Perlstein
Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. – Peter Davison
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. – Orson Pratt
War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature. – Richard Engel
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it’s against our nature to think about it. – Paolo Bacigalupi
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I’m trying to do that. – Roscoe Mitchell
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you’re out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn’t matter if you have academic degrees, or if you’re a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you. – Rachael Taylor
Nothing can teach you what it’s like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature. – Rosamund Pike
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. – Sai Baba
