Encheiresis Naturae Quotes & Sayings

In the garden of humanity there are tigers and lion, deer and doves. Deer and doves live carefully but with beauty and joy. — Debasish Mridha

[I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars. — Billy Crystal

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old. — Warren Buffett

All life is structure. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust). — Kenny Smith

I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in these terms. — Ada Yonath