“this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is only one good thing science ever discovered—a good thing, good tidings of great joy— that the world is round.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Satire may be mad and anarchic, but it presupposes an admitted superiority in certain things over others; it presupposes a standard.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It does not, in the conventional phrase, accept the conclusions of science, for the simple reason that science has not concluded. To… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“All the terms used in the science books, 'law,' 'necessity,' 'order,' 'tendency,' and so on, are really unintellectual .... The only words… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We have all read in scientific books, and, indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I? What am I?" roared the President, and he rose slowly to an incredible height, like some enormous wave about to arch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
