The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.
— Nikola Tesla
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.
I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.
— Nikki Sixx
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
— Nikita Khrushchev
It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice.
— Nigel Lawson
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
— Nigel Dennis
The state of emergency and critical nature of the times do not allow me, as they do not allow anyone, to embark on a blame game.
— Nicos Anastasiades
Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.
— Nicolas Roeg
Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
— Nicolas Cage
I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month. Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it's not to keep trying to be the best. That's not necessarily human nature.
— Nick Saban
Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.
— Nick Harkaway
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.
— Nicholas Negroponte
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Like most women, I thought it would be easy once I decided to start a family. I was surprised that Mother Nature kept poking me in the eye, saying, 'Nope, nope, nope.'
— Nia Vardalos
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.
— Neri Oxman
I'm not a mother of children, but I'm a different type of mother where my approach to design is more in line with nature. It's less about dictating and more about editing and listening and allowing something to grow. So I nourish and let the material express what it wants to be.
Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.
— Nelson Goodman
Modern science says: 'The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.' From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
I'm a strong voice by nature. I'm sometimes a bull in a china shop.
— Nikki Haley
One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.
— Nik Wallenda
Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
— Nigel Hamilton
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
I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.
— Nicole Maines
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
— Nicolas Chamfort
High-end divorce is a closed world. When I tried to research it, I was really surprised about how little there is out there. I think that's because of the nature of the subject matter - privacy is incredibly important to this level of client.
— Nicola Walker
We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.
— Nick Nolte
We played a lot of sandlot ball, so we were used to tackling each other, or falling on the concrete, things of that nature. And nine times out of 10, our flag games turned into tackle anyway. So when I got to high school, tackle football was kind of natural.
— Nick Ferguson
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
— Nicholas Kristof
Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
— Newt Gingrich
Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.
I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
— Neko Case
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.
Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.
— Nikki Grimes
The heart of the matter is that the very nature of the European Union, and of this country's relationship with it, has fundamentally changed after the coming into being of the European monetary union and the creation of the eurozone, of which - quite rightly - we are not a part.
A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.
I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have responsibilities when you portray violence in what angle you put down on that scene.
— Niels Arden Oplev
I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.
— Nicole Ari Parker
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Having plants and flowers in my space makes me feel very calm and Zen. For me, it's important to meditate every morning to be very clear in the head, and nature really helps me do the same thing.
— Nicola Formichetti
I'm not an absolutist about free speech. Intellectually, I believe that most of the time it's better to let things get said, argue them, and put lies and stupidities to rest. Practically, I know that newspapers rarely issue corrections with the same prominence they give to denouncements - and Twitter, by its nature, never does.
The more nature and stuff, the better. The source of our power comes from nature, and the closer to nature you are, the more you can power up.
— Nick Cummins
Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.
— Nicholas Culpeper
I grew up in Louisiana and spent my formative years there. There's a contradictory nature to the place and a sort of sinister quality underneath it all.
— Nic Pizzolatto
Our schedule is intense. We do this for five nights a week, so injuries can happen very easily with the demands of the job. It's just the nature of what we do and sports in general.
— Neville
In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.
In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.
