Charles Kingsley - Science Quotes

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I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

Charles Kingsley
Science frees us in many ways... from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

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The great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

Charles Kingsley
They say, man is the microcosm... but the man of science finds every worm and beetle a microcosm in its way. It exemplifies, directly or indirectly, every physical law in the universe, though it may not be two lines long. It is not only a part, but a mirror, of the great whole.

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Science was the child of Courage, and Courage the child of Knowledge.

Charles Kingsley
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

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There is no lie in Nature; no discords in the revelations of science, in the laws of the Universe.

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For science is, I verily believe, like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

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A great man of science... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things.

Charles Kingsley
It is the childlike, simple, patient, reverent heart, which science at once demands and cultivates. To prejudice or haste, to self-conceit or ambition, she proudly shuts her treasuries — to open them to men of humble heart, whom this world thinks simple dreamers — her Newtons, and Owens, and Faradays.

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Thus geology is (or ought to be), in popular parlance, the people's science - the science by studying which, the man ignorant of Latin, Greek, mathematics, scientific chemistry, can yet become - as far as his brain enables him - a truly scientific man.

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Geology... the science which explains to us the rind of the earth; of what it is made; how it has been made.

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Science has made vast strides, and introduced entirely new modes of looking at nature, and poets must live up to the age.

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Natural Science is a subject which a man cannot learn by paying for teachers. He must teach it himself, by patient observation, by patient common sense.

Charles Kingsley