Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

[One recent survey says,] people are tired of news, ... Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art. [Lat., Meliora sunt ea quae natura quam illa quae arte perfecta sunt.]

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Nature abhors annihilation.