Stanislaus Leszczynski Quotes

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Science is not wisdom.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.

Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

Common sense is not so common.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Common sense is often common nonsense. There is much that we have learned from science that is counter-intuitive.