During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . . — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to the globe as a whole; yet… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. { The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
