Understanding Nature Quotations

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.