Accounts Quote by William Whewell Download Open image “Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.” — William Whewell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounts Ancient Ancient world Astronomy Progressive Science World
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
“Of all the sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least. — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our exact and solid knowledge,… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting… — William Whewell 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
