The preacher then went on to criticise the attitude of religion towards science. "If there is still a feeling of hostility between... them ... it is no longer the fault of religion. There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is so no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last atom of matter is reached; reflect and refine till the last element of thought is made clear; the church now knows with the certainty of science what she once knew only by the certainty of faith, that you will find enthroned behind all thought and matter only one central idea,--that idea which the church has never ceased to embody,--I AM!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have tried so hard to adulterate our hearts, and have so greatly abused the microscope to study the hideous excrescences and sh...ameful warts which cover them and which we take pleasure in magnifying, that it is impossible for us to speak the language of other men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He is an optician, daily having to do with the microscope, telescope, and other inventions for sharpening our natural sight, thus ...enabling us mortals (as I once heard an eccentric put it) liberally to enlarge the field of our original and essential ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freud's eye was the microscope of potency. By fortune, his gray ghost may meditate... The spirits of all the impotent dead, seen clear, And quickly understand, without their flesh, How truly they had not been what they were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether he sleeps or wakes,--whether he runs or walks,--whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,--a man neve...r discovers anything, never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does, he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys; if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »