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Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.

— Johann Georg Hamann

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✓Similar Perspectives

Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena.

— Michael Shermer

Physics is based on the assumption that certain fundamental features of nature are constant.

— Rupert Sheldrake

Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

— Werner Heisenberg

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

— Lene Hau

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

— Niels Bohr

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

— Luther Burbank

I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

— John Burroughs

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

— Hod Lipson

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

— Max Planck

✗Opposing Perspectives

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

— Johann Georg Hamann