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Science Quotes by John Ruskin
- Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening…
- Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
- Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
- Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
- See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
- The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
- Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
- Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts…
- Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
- I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is…
- Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing…
- The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
- Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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- 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
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- 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
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