Homer on nature

Who dares think one thing, and another tell,
My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

A glorious death is his
Who for his country falls.

Bird-signs!
Fight for your country⁠—that is the best, the only omen!

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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