William Wordsworth Quotes

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Science is not gadgetry.

Science has liberated the ideas of those that read and reflect ... Science is progressive.

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.

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

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

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

Science is about questioning things.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

Sometimes a god comes.... He brings a new way to do a thing, or a new thing to be done. A new kind of singing, or a new kind of death. He brings this across the bridge between the dream-time and the world-time. When he has done this, it is done. You cannot take things that exist in the world and try to drive them back into the dream, to hold them inside the dream with walls and pretenses. That is insanity. What is, is. There is no use pretending, now, that we do not know how to kill one another.

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.