Analogies Quote by John Robert Seeley

He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of…

— John Robert Seeley

For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into…

— James Agee

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases…

— John Herschel

In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled…

— Loren Eiseley

A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases…

— John Herschel

Natural phenomena undisturbed by man point the way to the realization of a new technique. One needs a keen sense of observation. We must…

— Viktor Schauberger

Amusement to an observing mind is study.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become…

— Franz Winkler

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose…

— Thomas Chalmers

“He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of mechanical instruments,…

— William Hazlitt

One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in…

— Loren Eiseley

The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in…

— Albert Einstein