Naturalism Quotes

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There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism

I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

If you believe in evolution and naturalism then you have a reason not to think your faculties are reliable.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

Nature creates curved lines while humans create straight lines.

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

Obviously we know Bill Hader is funny and charming, but my question is, can he do raw humanity and naturalism? I think so.

For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

When you are playing an egomaniac running a fantastical ship, you don't want him to be too suburban. Naturalism doesn't work on the high seas.

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

The Human Self is the only friend and savior to all humanity.

Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people in the world

Spiritual leaders, priests and prophets are lamps burning in the dark, seeking meaning for humanity.

Science cannot disprove god. Science studies the things that are. The eternal question is who or what made them to be

Can really anybody put his hand on his heart and profess to know beyond doubt what happens on the other side of this life?

There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom

Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah. Maybe your own if not the world's

Theology is like assuming that there is a black cat in a dark room where in fact there is no black cat, and endeavoring to study the cat's properties and how it may have evolved from its ancestors.

The eyes of god are upon you, I mean the eyes of society. We are prisoners of societies in which we live

Be healthy by being outdoors in the natural daylight with nature!

All religions are "revealed" and "inspired". After all nothing happens without the "will" of god.

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: "Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?