Great Throughts Treasury

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Albert Einstein

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Nothing | Refinement | Science | Thinking | Wisdom |

William Henry Furness

What is the true end and aim of science but the discovery of the ultimate power - a seeking after God through the study of his ways.

Discovery | God | Power | Science | Study | Wisdom | Discovery | God |

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

We know well enough how little light science has so far been able to throw on the problems that surround us. But however much ado the philosophers may make, they cannot alter the situation. Only patient, persevering research, in which everything is subordinated to the one requirement of certainty, can gradually bring about a change.

Change | Enough | Light | Little | Problems | Research | Science | Wisdom |

J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

A single mind can acquire a fair knowledge of the whole field of science, and find plenty of time to spare for ordinary human affairs. Not many people take the trouble to do so. But without a knowledge of science one cannot understand current events. That is why our modern our modern literature and art are mostly so unreal.

Art | Events | Knowledge | Literature | Mind | People | Plenty | Science | Time | Wisdom | Trouble | Art | Understand |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Without my work in natural science I should never have known human beings as they really are. In no other activity can one come so close to direct perception and clear thought, or realize so fully the errors of the senses, the mistakes of the intellect, the weakness and greatnesses of human character.

Character | Perception | Science | Thought | Weakness | Wisdom | Work |

Philip G. Hamerton, fully Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is by; these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.

Age | Art | Literature | Men | Public | Science | Sound | Thinking | Tradition | Wisdom | Old |

Philip Henry

The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant in religion.

Religion | Science | Wisdom |

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Twin-sister of natural and revealed religion, and of heavenly birth, science will never belie her celestial origin, nor cease to sympathize with all that emanates from the same pure home. Human ignorance and prejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joined together; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away, and then science and religion shall be seen blending their parti-colored rays into one beautiful bow of light, linking heaven to earth and earth to heaven.

Birth | Earth | God | Heaven | Ignorance | Light | Prejudice | Religion | Science | Time | Will | Wisdom | God |

Mahlon Hoagland

As children we all possess a natural, uninhibited curiosity, a hunger for explanation, which seems to die slowly as we age - suppressed, I suppose, by the high value we place on conformity and by the need not to appear ignorant. It betokens a conviction that somehow science is innately incomprehensible. It precludes reaching deeper, thereby denying the profound truth that understanding enriches experience, that explanation vastly enhances beauty of the natural world in the eye of the beholder.

Age | Beauty | Children | Conformity | Curiosity | Experience | Hunger | Need | Science | Truth | Understanding | Wisdom | World | Beauty | Value |

Philip J. Hilts, fully Philip James Hilts

In all human activities, it is not ideas or machines that dominate; it is people. I have heard people speak of “the effect of personality on science.” But this is a backward thought. Rather, we should talk about he effect of science on personalities. Science is not the dispassionate analysis of impartial data. It is the human, and thus passionate, exercise of skill and sense on such date. Science is not an exercise in objectivity, but, more accurately, an exercise in which objectivity is prized.

Ideas | Machines | Objectivity | People | Personality | Science | Sense | Skill | Thought | Wisdom |

Arianna Huffington, born Arianna Stassinopoulos

Religion may begin with our love of God, but true science ends there. In the very process of demystifying the world, we discover a new mystery, recognizing and celebrating God in everything.

Ends | God | Love | Mystery | Religion | Science | Wisdom | World | God |

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

As knowledge advances, science ceases to scoff at religion; and religion ceases to frown on science. The hour of mockery by the one, and of reproof by the other, is passing away. Henceforth, they will dwell together in unity and good-will. They will mutually illustrate the wisdom, power, and grace of God. Science will adorn and enrich religion; and religion will ennoble and sanctify science.

God | Good | Grace | Knowledge | Mockery | Power | Religion | Science | Unity | Will | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the desires, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Commerce | Disease | Science | Wisdom |

William James

The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Business | God | Science | Wisdom | God |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Atomic bomb | God | Science | Wisdom | God |

Imre Lakatos

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

History | Philosophy | Science | Wisdom |

Loewe, fully Frederick Loewe, aka Fritz NULL

What is false in science cannot be true in religion. Truth is one and invisible. God is bound by His own laws.

God | Religion | Science | Truth | Wisdom | God |