Worth Quotes (4)
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Moral Essays. Epistle iv. Line 43. In The Works of Alexander Pope (1824), Vol. 5, 385.
In science its main worth is temporary, as a stepping-stone to something beyond. Even [Newton's] Principia … is truly but the beginning of a natural philosophy.
Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth (1827, 3rd. Ed., 1855), 46. Julius (13 Sep 1795, Valdagno, Italy - 3 Jan 1855, Hurstmonceux, Sussex, England) was also a clergyman. Although he initially pursued a law career, he took holy orders in 1826.
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.
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382.
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The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870), 552.
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