Science Quotes by John Dewey

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

— John Dewey

“wonder is the mother of all science.”

— John Dewey

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

— John Dewey

The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.

— John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

— John Dewey

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or…

— John Dewey

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

— John Dewey

Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

— John Dewey

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate…

— John Dewey

Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some…

— John Dewey

It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add…

— John Dewey

We sometimes talk as if "original research" were a peculiar prerogative of scientists or at least of advanced students. But all thinking…

— John Dewey

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to…

— John Dewey

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so…

— John Dewey

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively…

— John Dewey

The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…

— John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter…

— John Dewey

With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child…

— John Dewey

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through…

— John Dewey

Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of…

— John Dewey

Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools which humanity has so far devised for…

— John Dewey

We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to…

— John Dewey

The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific…

— John Dewey

When physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, contribute to the detection of concrete human woes and to the development of plans for remedying them…

— John Dewey

When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and…

— John Dewey

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their…

— John Dewey

Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by…

— John Dewey

Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits…

— John Dewey

“Professed scientific philosophers have been wont to employ the remoter and refinished products of science in ways which deny, discount or pervert…

— John Dewey

“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results…

— John Dewey

The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this…

— John Dewey

To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than…

— John Dewey

“The scientific method is the only authentic means at our command for getting at the significance of our everyday experiences of the…

— John Dewey

That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given…

— John Dewey