Even if facts could be known with certainty by observation, Pascal conceded that it would require the use of reason to understand or explain natural phenomena, and that "the secrets of nature are hidden" (Preface to the Traité du vide: I, 455).
"While our show is less interested in the specifically spiritual and religious aspects of alchemical history, the history of alchemy is essentially a history of seekers: that is, experimenters seeking after the secrets of nature and looking for ways to bend natural matter to the will of the human imagination, for the creation of art as well as the perfection of the body," Brafman explains.
We have discovered the secrets of nature.
We have used our minds to probe the secrets of nature.
Admirers say the group's curiosity and deceptively simple techniques are illuminating major secrets of nature.
The project that science had in common with explanatory verse such as this was revealing "the secrets of nature".
It both blinds him and also opens the secrets of nature and humanity to his discerning eye.
Victor Frankenstein, longing to "penetrate the secrets of nature," and idolizing "men who had penetrated deeper and knew more," grows "pale with study" and "emaciated from confinement".
Bian Qiao was to take the herbs in a special liquid for 30 days and he would then be able to understand all the secrets of nature.
The steady advances at its frontiers are turning us into safecrackers, nimbly manipulating the tumblers guarding the deepest secrets of nature and our own place within it.
Instead, he aspired to penetrate realms undreamed of in the schools at Paris and to lay bare the secrets of nature by positive study.
