Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the e...ffect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the l...ie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we study nature attentively, alike in its great revolutions and in its minutest works, it is impossible not to admit enchantmen...t--giving the word its fullest meaning. Man can create no force; he can but use the only existing force, which includes all others, namely, Motion--the incomprehensible Breath of the sovereign maker of the universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; ...while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking, love has found. Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short to the spirits everything speaks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn t...oday from the humanities as well as from the scientists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find th...e positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm a scientist also, Dr. Holden. I know the value of the cold light of reason. But I also know the deep shadows that light can ca...st. The shadows that can blind men to truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Y'know scientists are funny. We probe and measure and dissect. Invent lights without heat, weigh a caterpillar's eyebrow. But when... it comes to really important things we're as stupid as the caveman.... Like love. Makes the world go 'round, but what do we know about it? Is it a fact? Is it chemistry? Electricity?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Personally I think we're over-specialized. Why it's getting so we have experts who concentrate only on the lower section of a spec...imen's left ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »