Margaret Cavendish Quotes on Nature
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an English philosopher, poet, and prose writer and the first woman to attend a meeting of the Royal Society. This page collects quotes attributed to Margaret Cavendish on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Margaret Cavendish:
“Nature is one infinite body, made of an infinite number of parts.”
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Attributed to Margaret Cavendish:
“Thought is matter; and matter, rightly understood, is rational.”
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Attributed to Margaret Cavendish:
“Reason is corporeal, for it acts in matter and through matter.”
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“If Atomes are as small, as small can bee, They must in quantity of Matter all agree.”
The weight of Atomes', in The Atomic Poems of Margaret (Lucas) Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, from her Poems, and Fancies, 1653, an electronic edition. Edited with an introduction by Leigh Tillman Partington. -
“Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666)”
The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded