« All Science Quotes · Gilbert K. Chesterton's Page
Science Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of…
- The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go,…
- All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the…
- Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was…
- "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ...…
- Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;…
- To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost…
- [There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy,…
- Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
- Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable…
- I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific…
- The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
- Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it…
- The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.
- Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by…
- Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the…
- Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion…
- Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen,…
- Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving…
- People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books…
- I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
- They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of…
More Ways to Read Science Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov