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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. – Albert Einstein

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To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano. – James Whistler

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The Amen of nature is always a flower. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Id love to go back to Europe in the 20s and 30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged. – Michael Sheen

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