I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
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.
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.
I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.
All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.
Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under.
