Thomas Hobbes Quotes

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are only consequences.

Gravity doesn't lie.

It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.

Exactitude is not truth.

Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong.

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

Nature means Necessity.

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.