“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection (1920) by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, p. 98; also in The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology (2006) by Joseph Silk
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German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer 1571–1630Related quotes
“I think… that when it comes to us, anything is possible.”
Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle
Source: Message in a Bottle
Alan Rusbridger (1953) British newspaper editor
Alan Rusbridger (2008) cited in: Stuart Allan (2010) News Culture. p. 2.
2000s
“Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?”
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist
Physics and Philosophy (1958)
Context: I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments?
“God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.”
James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist
André Delambre
The Fly (1958)
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 3
Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 388
“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
On Dr. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury : as cited in The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1639-1729 , ed. Charles Wells Moulton, H. Malkan (1910) p. 591.
Peter Blake (1932) British artist
Serena Davies, "In the studio:Peter Blake, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/13/bastudio13.xml The Daily Telegraph, 2005-12-13 <br class="br">On Marcel Duchamp. <br class="br">Art
