Bent Quote by Matthew Arnold Download Open image “The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are ...” — Matthew Arnold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bent Inspirational Knowing Knowing things Knowledge Knows Our time Science Time
Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible. — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos. And the cumulative worldwide build-up of knowledge over time converts science into something only a little short of a trans-national, trans-generational meta-mind.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Making two possibilities a reality. Predicting the future of things we all know. Fighting off the diseased programming Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries. Science… — Serj Tankian Copy Share Image
One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in. — C. B. van Niel Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the prudence of the winter time for a fat wisdom of, midsummer days. Manhood is bent to the passing cares of the passing moment, and holds so closely to his eyes the sheet of, "to-day," that it… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent,… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it… — Enoch Powell Copy Share
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape! — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share
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