A Quote by Margaret Wertheim

Nature rarely does anything mathematically perfect, and naturalism results from imperfections and deviations.

Margaret Wertheim

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Margaret Wertheim
Australian - Writer
Born: 1958

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.

William A. Dembski

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Leon Battista Alberti

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

Diane von Furstenberg

It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat.

C. S. Lewis

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

Bob Marley

I'm not able to completely escape naturalism. It's very difficult to escape from naturalism without being too dry. That's what I try to do in my cinema - escape naturalism and do films that are, at the same time, realistic but have a lot of fantasy. It's very difficult in cinema to get away from what life is about, from real life. The way the actors work has to be realistic - you can't do Baroque acting - so it's very complicated. And, we're human beings, so we're not perfect. I'm trying to do something different.

Philippe Garrel

Old-fashioned girl that I am, I still have a landline, though it rarely rings - and when it does, especially without warning, there's rarely anything good on the other end.

Meghan Daum

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.

Stephanie Perkins

Naturalism is a counterpart to theism. Theism says there's the physical world and God. Naturalism says there's only the natural world. There are no spirits, no deities, or anything else.

Sean M. Carroll

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

Jessie J

It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.

Yasmin Ahmad

Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

John Ruskin

We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we'll let them.

Lysa TerKeurst

The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but results - that can solve someone else's problem or contribute to making someone else's life better.

Michael Gerber

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

James Madison

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

Rene Descartes

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