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Moses Harvey
(21 Mar 1820 - 3 Sep 1901)
Irish clergyman and naturalist.
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Science Quotes by Moses Harvey (1 quote)
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.
— Moses Harvey
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
