…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...

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do,...

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn’t any more, it didn’t shock me. It seemed natural and right!

Messy hair, uncombed, gel-free, un-styled and perfectly imperfect.

For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.

No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

Sexual normalcy and abnormality are personal and subjective concepts. What is unnatural to one [person] is natural to another. What is abnormal under certain conditions may be completely normal under others. And, in any event,...

The natural evolution of a well-educated populus is integration. And this is not political; it’s not theoretical; it’s not even partisan.

I guess I’m just a natural warrior.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it’s natural to experiment.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

I don’t even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

private parts” private.

If you’re asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I’ve looked since I was 13 years old.

Sopra i tetti delle case si vedevano striscioni di nubi, sfregati e pestati dal vento, che, lassù, doveva soffiare libero come aveva soffiato al principio del mondo.

There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it’s somehow wrong to...

A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human...

Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different...

If you think everybody hates you, then your ignorance is beyond the limit, because there’s a loving heart somewhere longing to see your face.

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000...

Supernatural simplicity viewed and perceived with complexity, naturally; many suffer from an outside-in misunderstanding.

The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.

As far as I’m concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural world… which doesn’t seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous...

I have been able to solve a few problems of mathematical physics on which the greatest mathematicians since Euler have struggled in vain … But the pride I might have held in my conclusions was...

An Englishman’s never so natural as when he’s holding his tongue.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

Of the contributions made during the essayist period three call for notice: Weismann deserves mention for his useful work in asking for the proof that “acquired characters” or, to speak more precisely, parental experience can...

With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or future punishment, or as a storehouse of anaesthetics for those who find the...

Kids are natural scientists.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of...

I don’t even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables.

A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.

You’re one of the most natural, great singers I’ve heard in a long time.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

That’s the thing about great artists: They find the thing that’s most obvious to themselves, what’s most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.

Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.”(Last words, according to Dickens’s obituary in The Times.)

See, my aim is not to survivebut to be thrown to the wolfs with adrenaline still pumping in my veins and hear the gods laughing saying ”that was one hell of a youth” and everything...

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well....

That’s all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of this pretended thing, revealed religion. They are the natural dictates of conscience, and...

We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an...