Marshall McLuhan Quotes

Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

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

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.

Magic is something that happens that appears to be impossible. What I call 'illusion magic' uses laws of science and nature that are already known. Real magic uses laws that haven't yet been discovered.

If I have learned nothing else …, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.

Nature is very constant and conformable with herself.

In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which Newton discovered with the aid of the calculus, is to have a sufficient number of observations and a mathematics that is complex enough.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.