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For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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.
Science is nothing but perception.
Science is nothing but perception.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking read more
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that read more
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real read more
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
'Twas thus by the glare of false science betray'd,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science)
[Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his read more
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
