Rudyard Kipling on nature

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.

Every woman knows all about everything.

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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