James Prescott Joule Quote

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Euclid

• God
• Nature
• Thinking

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Henry David Thoreau

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please.  I see no reason why I should not have the same thought, the same power of expression, to-morrow.  What I write, whilst I write it, seems the most natural thing in the world; but yesterday I saw a dreary vacuity in this direction in which now I see so much; and a month hence, I doubt not, I shall wonder who he was that wrote so many continuous pages.  Alas for this infirm faith, this will not strenuous, this vast ebb of a vast flow! I am God in nature; I am a weed by the wall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Power
• Thinking

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Leonardo da Vinci

• Nature

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

Jean de La Fontaine

Nature is the art of God.

Dante Alighieri

• God
• Nature
• Art

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Empedocles

• Nature

Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

Michael Faraday

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Thomas Hardy

• Society

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Love
• God

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him.

Virginia Woolf

• Artist

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Henry David Thoreau

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

John Keats

• Mind
• Thinking

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Aeschylus

• Man

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Roger Ebert

• Change

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

Mark Twain

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Beauty

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

Antonio Gaudi

• Nature