Infallible Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infallible Physical science Science Simple
Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science. — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us.… — Arthur David Ritchie Copy Share Image
but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Science makes no claim to infallibility; it leaves that claim to be made by theologians. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical. — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“The conclusion is that the physical theory and the mathematical theory of science are valid methods but not valid philosophies. Facts need interpretation the… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
