Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine, and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became a builder of machines.


Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer (ed. HarperCollins Publishers, 1982)

Eric Hoffer Quotes

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a...

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a...

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a...

Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a...