Science Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I despise Birth-Control first because it is ... an entirely meaningless word; and is used so as to curry favour even with…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton