“Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Book III, Ch. 13
Essais (1595), Book III
Source: Montaigne: Essays
“We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be. … She's always got better imagination than we have.”
Sir Douglas Robb Lectures, University of Auckland (1979); lecture 1, "Photons: Corpuscles of Light" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c&t=48m01s
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“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”
Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
On his then-one year old daughter Tiffany http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/04/06/video_donald_trump_on_his_one_year_old_daughter_s_brests.html, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, 1994 <br class="br">1990s
Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828) British politician
History of the War in the Peninsula, Under Napoleon, Volume 1, p. 122
William Crookes (1832–1919) British chemist and physicist
Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
Context: In old Egyptian days a well known inscription was carved over the portal of the temple of Isis: "I am whatever hath been, is, or ever will be; and my veil no man hath yet lifted." Not thus do modern seekers after truth confront nature — the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she is to reconstruct what she has been, and to prophesy what she yet shall be. Veil after veil we have lifted, and her face grows more beautiful, august, and wonderful with every barrier that is withdrawn.
Willem Roelofs (1822–1897) Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897)
translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">(original Dutch: citaat van Willem Roelofs, in het Nederlands:) Wij scheiden kleur en teekening af, omdat wij dat wel moeten. Maar de natuur doet dat niet. Zij geeft niet iets een vorm, om het daarna te kleuren. Vorm en kleur zijn inhaerente eigenschappen van het voorwerp, dat ons te schilderen is gegeven. Verwaarloozen wij een van beide, dan geven wij slechts de helft. <br class="br">Quote of Roelofs, in Elsevier's geïllustreerd maandschrift..., Oct. / Nov. 1891; as cited in an excerpt in the RKD Archive https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/219, The Hague <br class="br">undated quotes
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), If You See Her, Say Hello
