Natural Quotes
Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.
Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.
Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.
Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.
Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!
When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.
It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.
Since life consists of madness spiked with lies, the farther you are from each other the more lies you can put into it and the happier you'll be. That's only natural and normal. Truth is inedible.
In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.
Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.
The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.
A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.
I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.
Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.
We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.
I believe that peace is not merely an absence of war but the nurture of human life, and that in time this nurture would do away with war as a natural process.
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.
What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.
Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.
Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.
Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.