Applied science Quote by C. S. Lewis

For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution…

— Peter Kreeft

“There is something which unites magic and applied science while separating both from the ‘wisdom’ of earlier ages. For the wise men of old…

— C.S. Lewis

“Our problems are manmade--therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny…

— John F. Kennedy

It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and…

— Lord Acton

“All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.”

— Karl Marx

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

— E. F. Schumacher

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties…

— Mark Twain

Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of…

— Ernest Starling

If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of…

— Guglielmo Marconi

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

— Anonymous

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of…

— Plato

“When man comes to the realization that he is not the "favorite" of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was…

— Joseph Lewis