"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences." ― Robert Green Ingersoll Topic(s): Nature More From Robert Green Ingersoll "Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science." "We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death." "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." More In Nature "Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within."― Alfred Lord Tennyson "Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them."― Kwame Nkrumah "A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn."― C. Northcote Parkinson