Horace Mann on nature

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Aristotle384–322 BCPolitics, Book I, 1253a.8

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Baltasar Gracián1601–1658

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