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

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. Ruskin.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; (but) a creed is always sensitive. Froude.

Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Hare.

Scientia nihil aliud est quam veritatis imago—Science is but an image of the truth. Bacon.

Scientia popinæ—The art of cookery.

Scientia quæ est remota a justitia, calliditas 5 potius quam sapientia est appellanda—Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Cic.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. Disraeli.

Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. Horace Mann.

Scilicet expectes, ut tradet mater honestos / Atque alios mores, quam quos habet?—Can you expect that the mother will teach good morals or others than her own. Juv.

Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus—The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. Virg.