Quotes of: Natural-science Keyword

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.

The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

We made love like September swims in August. But that’s natural, because it’s too cold to go swimming in October.

This Book Title is Invisible

Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.

One Shoe Off

Nature, take my breath with you; renew it with the wild breeze and fill my being up with so much soul, ego learns to fade away.

Once a Girl, Now a Woman

We all are creative by nature, but our creativity gets buried deep under the pressure of our day to day mad rush.

Open The Windows: To the World aound You

There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things.

Post-Scarcity Anarchism

Fire can destroy or purify, strengthen or weaken, all depending on the nature of the material being burned. Pain has the same effects on the human soul, and for the same reasons.

The Price of Creation

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects. -pg 129

Pandora in the Congo

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.

Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life

People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Children believe what you promise. They are excited and expectant. Your nature must be like theirs: bold, daring, unafraid and eager to experience the victory God has already assured.

Pour the Oil

Animals and nature are known to open our hearts, calm us, and reduce blood pressure and stress.

The Power Of The Heart: Finding Your True Purpose

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.

Pride and Prejudice

Within the nature of every person is a desire to feel appreciated, to feel needed, and to be loved.

The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins