1.   But it could also be used to dismiss the claims, even of empiricists, that they knew how nature works.

2.   But, symbolically, he inaugurates three centuries of amazing progress in explaining how nature works and in harnessing these discoveries.

3.   After exalting nature as an ideal, Thoreau was trying to understand how nature worked at a level of detail few had even imagined, Dean said.

4.   Nature should work that way.

5.   Of course, the politicians had a little help dealing with what nature had wrought.

6.   That is when Fire Islanders, Samton among them, return by ferry to see once again the architectural mischief nature has wrought.

7.   There are times when your obstinate nature really does work in your favor.

8.   He thinks how nature might have worked and once he gets started his whole strength goes into pursuing this goal.

9.   It would have enabled physicists to study the structure of matter in unprecedented detail in search of a unified theory of how nature works.