Full Idea
In present times, man wishes to understand the lawfulness of nature in order to submit to it.
Gist of Idea
Modern man wants laws of nature in order to submit to them
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 111)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.84
A Reaction
They don't make philosophers like Nietzsche any more (or at least, in the analytic tradition I am following!). No one who is trying to give an analysis of the laws of nature has any interest in why we are so keen to find them. Stoics 'live by nature'.