“Man and not nature initiates, but nature in large measure controls.”

“The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.”

“I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”

“The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.”

“An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.”

“The transference of culture in time can, in large measure, be described as the conservation of sign systems serving as a control on behavior.”