In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there so the underlying nature of being is weird.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Look when you're the president there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean it's just the nature of the job.

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity love brotherhood and relationships that I never understood and probably never would have. So from that standpoint there is some truth and good in everything.

There is no God Nature sufficeth unto herself in no wise hath she need of an author.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature whether sacred or profane out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

In our nature however there is a provision alike marvelous and merciful that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Men speak of natural rights but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors a location where it cannot be argued there are never enough comfortable chairs.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.