“[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.” WorldScienceSpiritFoundWonderDivineNegativeIdealsRootsUnityAnalysisImaginarySublimeTranslationsOutletsIdeal WorldPortentsAmphibians Author:Gottfried Leibniz
“The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.” EndsScienceSpiritEducationClearAccountsAimChiefsInquisitive Author:J. Arthur Thomson
“Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in nature, he is subject to its laws, he can not break free, he can not leave even in thought; it is in vain that his spirit wants to soar beyond the bounds of the visible world, he is always forced to return.” MenWorldWantGivingLawScienceSpiritNatureBornImaginationNaturalBreakSubjectsFoolReturnGiving UpBoundsVainVisibleCan NotSoar Author:Baron d'Holbach
“The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.” MenWellsMayScienceSpiritNamesEnergyNationsRoomsGeniusHigherDemandAuthorityHighestIntellectualIndependenceFacultyRoutineSpheresNewtonPrescriptions Author:Matthew Arnold