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"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
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"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."
"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"
"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."
"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."
"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
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"We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
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