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• Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Fishing, Recreation

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• For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.

  Emile Durkheim

  Religious, Philosophy, Science

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• For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
  Comyth al this newe corn from yer to yere;
  And out of olde bokis, in good fey,
  Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Fey, Als

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1879). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer”

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• History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Lying, Science

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.55, CUP Archive

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• I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.

  Norbert Wiener

  Faith, Science, Way

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• Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Dream, Philosophy, Taken

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Science, Accounts, Ifs

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.264

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• In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance. An explication of the terms commonly ends the controversy, and the disputants are surprised to find that they had been quarrelling, while at bottom they agreed in their judgement.

  David Hume

  Lying, Science, Reality

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

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• In every section of the entire area where the word science may properly be applied, the limiting factor is a human one. We shall have rapid or slow advance in this direction or in that depending on the number of really first-class men who are engaged in the work in question. ... So in the last analysis, the future of science in this country will be determined by our basic educational policy.

  James Bryant Conant

  Country, Educational, Science

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• In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Success, Brother, Believe

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• In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Science, Genius

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.41, Booklassic

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• In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Science, Aristocracy

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• It is in the name of Moses that Bellarmin thunderstrikes Galileo; and this great vulgarizer of the great seeker Copernicus, Galileo, the old man of truth, the magian of the heavens, was reduced to repeating on his knees word for word after the inquisitor this formula of shame: "Corde sincera et fide non ficta abjuro maledico et detestor supradictos errores et hereses." Falsehood put an ass's hood on science.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Names, Heaven

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• Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

  John Henry Newman

  Nature, Science, History

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.183, Aeterna Press

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• No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Science, Masters

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.261, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Religion, Atheism

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• Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch, and being killed with an automatic pistol or shell in place of a dagger or a battle-axe.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Horse, Science, Doctors

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• Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Self, Religion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Science, Giving, Miracle

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• Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

  Jean Rostand

  Freedom, Science, Mind

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Science, Evil

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.118

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• Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you look at the results which science has brought in its train, you will find them to consist almost wholly in elements of mischief. See how much belongs to the word "Explosion" alone, of which the ancients knew nothing.

  Arthur Eddington

  Wisdom, Children, Cutting

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• Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spiritual, Angel, Science

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• Science no longer is in the position of observer of nature, but rather recognizes itself as part of the interplay between man and nature. The scientific method ... changes and transforms its object: the procedure can no longer keep its distance from the object.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Nature, Distance, Science

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• Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among ends that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scientific considerations. If a man were to say, "I hate the human race, and I think it would be a good thing if it were exterminated," we could say, "Well, my dear sir, let us begin the process with you." But this is hardly argument, and no amount of science could prove such a man mistaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Mistake, Science

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