“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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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?”
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.”
André Delambre
The Fly (1958)
“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 3
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.”
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.
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
On Marcel Duchamp.
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