Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
As a scientist, I clearly see the potential for harnessing the power of nature.
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.
Nature uses as little as possible of anything.
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.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.