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"Will saw the cruelty now as the fierce inevitability of nature. It was not from malice that the Light and the servants of the Light would ever hound the Dark, but from the nature of things."

— Susan Cooper

Literature1935

#nature

"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected…"

— Francis Bacon

Literature1909–1992

#nature

"Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the sense…"

— Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics1452–1519

#Aesthetics

"ven within the realm of the strictly scientific; we need constant touch with the concrete realities of living nature to prevent our picturing her as exclusively such as we make her in our specialties …"

— Ralph Vary Chamberlin

Science1879–1967

#life