Understanding Nature Quotes:

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Summer, Peace, Natural Gifts, Natural Things

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

- Jacob Bronowski

source: Universities Quarterly (1956) vol. 10, no. 3, p. 252

topic: Wisdom, Nature, Men, Man And Nature, Forces Of Nature

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Nature, Natural Gifts, Beautiful Nature

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.

- David Attenborough

source: "The Sum of You: Teach Yourself" by Alan Graham, Hachette UK, (p. 13), October 29, 2010.

topic: Nature, Earth Day, Understanding, Inspirational Earth, World Earth Day

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

- Albert Einstein

topic: God, Religious, Atheist, Intellectual Humility, Corresponding

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

- Marc Chagall

topic: Understanding, Would Be, Fairy Tale, Chimera, Illogical

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

- Standing Bear

topic: Nature, Heart, Men, Man And Nature, Beautiful Nature

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

- Marilyn Ferguson

topic: Real, Understanding, Intuition, Understanding Nature

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

- Charles Sanders Peirce

topic: Men, Understanding, Chance, Understanding Nature

Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge.

- Wolfgang Pauli

source: "Writings on Physics and Philosophy" by Wolfgang Pauli, (p. 142), 1994.

topic: Plato, Men, Views, Congruence, Dialectics