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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a read more
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
 How index-learning turns no student pale,
 Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.  
 How index-learning turns no student pale,
 Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. 
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time read more
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception.
 To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature 
belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute read more 
 To the natural philosopher, to whom the whole extent of nature 
belongs, all the individual branches of science constitute the 
links of an endless chain, from which not one can be detached 
without destroying the harmony of the whole. 
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
 If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the 
art of the soluble. Both are immensely read more 
 If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the 
art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. 
 The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are 
on the way to a pertinent answer.  
 The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are 
on the way to a pertinent answer. 
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.