The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a...

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

The trees were tinted exquisitely to an uncertain glory as the great red sinking sun flashed its rays on their crystal mantle. The vale of Aylesbury was drowsing beneath a slowly deepening shroud of mist....

As a species, we’ve somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we’ll survive our own ingenuity.

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, all of this because of too little Torah study.

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.

I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of...

I don’t believe man is a woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected.

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

I make friends as easily as water freezes in an active volcano. Remember: handshakes feel more natural if you leave your rubber gloves at home. Unless you enjoy networking in public restrooms.

I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.

As all material creation consists of out-births of things spiritual, the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world that of effects, and as effects are the repositories of their causes, the...

Well, as you’ve said, we cannot expect the people of China not to want to progress, so if you have an opportunity to progress, to develop your economy to a world class economy, it’s an...

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

My artificial creations will be better than nature’s natural creations.

When you dance, your body just wants to find its natural weight. I’m naturally a lot more Tommy Tune than I am Wolverine.

The whole world is dying. Just too slowly and naturally for my liking. Somebody should poison the food by genetically modifying it somehow. But even if that happened, nobody would be stupid enough to buy...

The natural world is not indestructible.

Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of...

It’s natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how...

When what one does, reps, or ‘spits’, repetitively, is foul or beastly – one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature’s law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game,...

Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I drive a Prius. I always turn my faucets off. I never use plastic bottles anymore. I use glass bottles. I bring my own bags to the grocery store. And I try to use all...

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it’s an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is.

If I could take a bite of the whole worldAnd feel it on my palateI’d be more happy for a minute or so…But I don’t always want to be happy.Sometimes you have to beUnhappy to...

Natural history is not about producing fables.

In Paley’s famous illustration, the adaptation of all the parts of the watch to the function, or purpose, of showing the time, is held to be evidence that the watch was specially contrived to that...

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb...

Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a...

La luna era ormai alta alta nel cielo, s’era rimpicciolita e pareva non volesse più aver che fare col mondo, tutta assorta nella contemplazione di quello che ci stava al di là. Al mondo, pareva...

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

A man once asked me … how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed...

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.

We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.

…and a third had died in his bunk of natural causes– for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one’s life

How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, Culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very...

It is man’s natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.