

Science Quotes
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
We behold the face of nature bright with gladness.
Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than humans would at first suppose.
Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature's cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.
He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor.
I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.
That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection.
Farewell Australia! You ... are too great and ambitious for affection, yet not great enough for respect. I leave your shores without sorrow or regret.
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently, his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
The highest wisdom has but one science - the science of the whole - the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.
Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.
Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.
Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.
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