Greater Quote by Samuel Johnson

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of…

— Samuel Johnson

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.

— Bertolt Brecht

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple…

— Vannevar Bush

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

— Charles Kingsley

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look…

— George B. McClellan

besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.

— Thomas Jefferson

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and…

— Vannevar Bush

“We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple…

— Vannevar Bush