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Science Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
- An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
- Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
- True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,…
- Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
- [I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,…
- [T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it...
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