I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If [science] tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls, The learned hold, are animals; So horses they affirm to be Mere engines made by… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
There are two classes [of scientists], those who want to know, and do not care whether others think they know or not,… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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