In Soviet Russia, a maxim coined by the not-so-educated but very talented botanist and natural selectionist Ivan Michurin was popular and often repeated: "We may not expect any charities from nature; to take them from it is our task."
This is quite an anthem to science indeed — even if it was sung in a dramatic historical context and put to questionable ideological use.
In my youth, I invented (or picked up somewhere) another maxim with somehow similar logic but an almost diametrically opposite meaning: "A fight against nature always ends with nature's victory!"