Nature

Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic.

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Famous quotes containing the word nature:

    “Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

    “Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    “When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)