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All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and
childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
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.
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as
evidence of a heightened read more
If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as
evidence of a heightened sensibility.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike read more
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease
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.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as read more
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
