Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung. – Enya
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur. – Edmund Husserl
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! – Edmund Husserl
Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on. – Michael Behe
Charles Darwin got his theory, his notion of natural selection, evolution, and so did its independent discoverer, Alfred Wallace, from reading Malthus. – Paul Samuelson
Racism is essentially natural, it’s old fashioned it’s an evolutionary phase that we’re going through. Ultimately it wont exist. – Michael Hutchence
Every description of natural processes must be based on ideas which have been introduced and defined by the classical theory. – Niels Bohr
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. – George Santayana
What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural ‘byproduct’ of unregulated market forces. – David Puttnam
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions. – Daniel Webster
I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I’m not a natural musician. – Nicholson Baker
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. – Edgard Varese
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian. – Edmund White