Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.
Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.
Of all the human sciences, the science of man is the most worthy.
A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Ethics is in truth the easiest of all sciences.
From science comes foresight, from foresight action.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Logic is the most useful tool of all the arts. Without it no science can be fully known.
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
Experience by itself is not science.
One does not know completely a science as long as one does not know its history.
Philosophy is true mother of the arts.
If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities—perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Art is science made clear.
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Ideas, being only accessible to crowds after having assumed a very simple shape, must often undergo the most thoroughgoing transformations to become popular. It is especially when we are dealing with somewhat lofty philosophic or scientific ideas that we see how far-reaching are the modifications they require in order to lower them to the level of the intelligence of crowds.
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