“The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.” EndsScienceSpiritEducationClearAccountsAimChiefsInquisitive Author:J. Arthur Thomson
“Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.” MayMeanDoeEndsBodyScienceCertainKnowledgeProgressDevelopmentAccountsIntuitionIntellectPoeticEndeavorIdleCertain Knowledge Author:Max Planck
“After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.” GivingMindFirstsHumansMayStillsEndsHandsSpiritPrayerCenturyRevolutionPrayingProgramMercyAccountsTwentiesSteadfastSketchingHuman FamilyScientific RevolutionGood Prayer Author:Freeman Dyson
“It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.” ThinkingMenWorldGivingLooksEndsWomenWalksMysteryStrangeColdAccountsHotMilesTeethLiftsFiftyChairsTremblingStrange ThingsOne WomanHot And Cold Book:Adam Bede Source: Adam Bede
“It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.” EndsTodayEvilMonthsOughtTomorrowAccountsLazyMisfortunesLazinessDelayInclinationMy FutureProcrastinatingMortificationFuture Life Author:Washington Allston