“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
Nature“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
Knowledge“Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.”
Nature“In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
Work“Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.”
Science“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.”
Faith“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”
Wisdom“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.”
Nature“It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.”
Sad“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”
Great“The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.”
Truth“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
Science“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Great“Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.”
Money“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
Science“In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”
Art“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
Truth“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
Science“The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.”
Imagination“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”
Science“I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.”
History“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
Faith