Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.
— Richard Dawkins
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We may look back in horror that we allowed our children to be born of the random processes that nature provides.
— Riccardo Sabatini
While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them.
— Renato Dulbecco
You must come to Jesus if you want to go to Heaven. He will change your nature; He will change all evil habits.
— Reinhard Bonnke
Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.
— Rebekah Brooks
I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.
— Rebecca Miller
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.
— Rebecca Harding Davis
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
— Ray Kurzweil
Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.
— Ray Dalio
I'm shy by nature and don't like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.
— Ravi Teja
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.
— Raoul Dufy
I just loved Jake The Snake because of that character and how he cut a promo. That dark nature of his character was amazing.
— Randy Orton
None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
— Randeep Hooda
Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.
— Rana el Kaliouby
There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.
— Ramana Maharshi
Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.
— Richard D. Zanuck
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
— Richard Bach
Remember the Y2K bug? Ahhh, those were the days... I'll never forget that New Year's Eve. My wife and I were in Golden Bay dancing with her parents to Abba songs when suddenly, the rain began to fall. I took it as a sign from Mother Nature that everything was gonna be okay. Sure enough, the clock struck 12, and life went on as normal.
— Rhys Darby
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
— Regina Spektor
Though Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton 11 years after Camille Hanks married Bill Cosby, and after having earned her own law degree, the terms of her marriage were also shaped in their own way by a presumption of a husband's centrality and a wife's subsidiary nature.
— Rebecca Traister
Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Some people won't like me; that's just human nature. I battled with that for years, trying to please people, but now I haven't got time to win people over! I've got nappies to change!
— Rebecca Ferguson
What drew me to Cyborg was the tragic nature of his origins and how grounded he is in a reality that I recognise. As an actor, it really gave me a lot to chew on.
— Ray Fisher
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
— Ray Comfort
My family was very conservative, and I had a traditional upbringing. I was not brought up to be a sex symbol, nor is it in my nature to be one. The fact that I became one is probably the loveliest, most glamorous and fortunate misunderstanding.
— Raquel Welch
Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
— Rani Mukerji
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
— Randy Moss
General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
— Rand Paul
Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
— Ramez Naam
As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer senses; and the mind is called the inner sense because it is inside. But the distinction between inner and outer is only with reference to the body; in truth, there is neither inner nor outer. The mind's nature is to remain pure like ether.
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
It's human nature to make the complex manageable and determine things that fit your conclusions. That's bias.
— Richard Burr
The raw emotion and physical nature of the NFL definitely push a lot of peoples' buttons. It's played once a week, so every game is important.
— Rich Eisen
Religion is never going to go away, and anyone who thinks it will doesn't understand what religion is. It is a language to describe the experience of human nature, so for as long as people struggle to describe what it means to be alive, it will be a ready-made language to express those feelings.
— Reza Aslan
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
Nature is extremely important to me. Which may be just about the only trouble I'll have in New York. I'll miss the trees!
— Reggie Jackson
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
— Rebecca Solnit
Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.
People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.
So how does the machine work that you have a financial crisis? How does deleveraging work - what is the nature of that machine? And what is human nature, and how do you raise a community of people to run a business?
As a human being, it's in your nature, when somebody says something about you negatively, to defend yourself and lash back. That's what we all have to learn not to do. You have to forgive a person. And when you forgive a person, you have to forgive yourself.
— Ray Allen
Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.
— Raoul Vaneigem
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
— Randy Travis
I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
— Randy Couture
I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.
I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
