Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Schwer ist es, aus dem Geschrei erhitzter Parteien die Stimme der Wahrheit zu unterscheiden—It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated partisans. Schiller.

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. Emerson.

Science corrects the old creeds ... and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses. Emerson.

Science deals exclusively with things as they 25 are in themselves. Ruskin.

Science dissects death. F. W. Robertson.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Emerson.

Science falsely so called. St. Paul.

Science must have originated in the feeling of something being wrong. Carlyle.

Science has been seriously retarded by the 30 study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. Goethe.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. Carlyle.