Science in Quotes: Course of Nature

(Stephanie Lam/The Epoch Times)

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as quoted in Johann Peter Eckermann’s “Conversations with Goethe,” translated by J. Oxenford.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was a biologist, theoretical physicist, philosopher, and writer.