Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.
Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means.
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