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John Ruskin
(2 Aug 1819 - 20 Jan 1900)
English art critic and author who wrote and lectured on art, architecture and social problems. He favoured modern landscape painters (especially Turner) over the old masters.
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Science Quotes by John Ruskin (6)
Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all; it is merely "being sent" to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
— John Ruskin
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 128:25.
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism, No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.
— John Ruskin
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 281:32.
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
— John Ruskin
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:25.
See also: | Science (127)
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
— John Ruskin
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:40.
Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
— John Ruskin
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:42.
See also: | Science (127)
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
— John Ruskin
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 464:02.
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