Science Quotes by G.K. Chesterton

14 Science quotes by G.K. Chesterton

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G.K. Chesterton’s sharp wit and keen insight appear in these 14 science‑related lines, offering a compact glimpse into his philosophical take on discovery.

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“Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.”

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“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.”

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“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To…

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“There is only one good thing science ever discovered—a good thing, good tidings of great joy— that the world is round.”

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“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.”

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“It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the…

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“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself…

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“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without…

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“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in…

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“All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual … The only words…

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“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of…

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“I? What am I?" roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch…

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“We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name.…

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“The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is…

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“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the…

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