Accounts Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounts Barren Errors Science
Maybe we should admit that our science is not as perfect as we would like to believe and that nature is ultimately inexplicable and… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. — James Jeans Copy Share Image
“The problem is that once science has reduced a complex phenomenon to a couple of variables, however important they may be, the natural tendency… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
If you suppress laboratories, physical science will be stricken with barrenness and death. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Science, great, mighty and in the end unerring, science has fallen into many errors - errors which have been fortunate and useful rather than… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image