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- The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.…
- 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…
- All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day…
- Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside…
- Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out…
- We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly…
- What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy…
- . . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can be discovered is…
- Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the…
- Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy…
- 'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.
- The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work…
- True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science…
- The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial…
- The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of…
- Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its…
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