Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Cutting Quotes, Science Quotes

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

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This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

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Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

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GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

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[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man. ... [Or philosophy, or theology] ...There can be, without any question at all, as good higher mathematics about a turnip as about a man. But I do not think, though I speak in a manner somewhat tentative, that there could be as good a novel written about a turnip as a man.

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FROG, n. A reptile with edible legs

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

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What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education.

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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

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Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

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