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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it;… — John Flavel
God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from… — William Gurnall
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a… — Charles Spurgeon
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the… — Matthew Henry
Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last. — Richard Sibbes
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are… — Charles Spurgeon
And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort are not come,… — William Gurnall
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer. — Henri Poincare
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered, to the ridicule… — Charles Babbage
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such… — John Herschel
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.… — Isaac Newton
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of… — Louis Pasteur
But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things… — Francis Bacon
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do… — Joshua Reynolds
If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively… — Joseph Paxton
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and… — John Desmond Bernal
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge, they… — William Whewell
Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then… — Charles Francis Richter
Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it… — Victor J. Stenger
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts… — James Bryant Conant
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew. — William Gilbert

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