Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel.

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

Nature's economy shall be the base for our own, for it is immutable, but ours is secondary. An economist without knowledge of nature is therefore like a physicist without knowledge of mathematics.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity.

Beauty surrounds us.

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

It looks like a bothering sort of day.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

I actually studied cooking and, like, was thinking about becoming a chef.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.