“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.” MindSpiritCultureStudyConditionsBecomingCircumstancesPerfectionInwardBecoming Something Author:Matthew Arnold
“Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.” CultureStudyPerfectionSwaggerSwag Author:Matthew Arnold
“When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries.” WholeScienceStudyTeacherAdviceCenturyExampleDegreesPerfectionPhysicsDustBubblesParticlesTheoreticalGeometrySecuredJollyMaturedMunichTheoretical Physics Author:Max Planck
“Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.” MayStudyCreationGreatnessGratitudeDiscoveryPerfectionRaisesContemplatingPower Of GodNew Discoveries Author:Jonathan Edwards