Charles Singer Quotes

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To succeed in science it is necessary to receive the tradition of those who have gone before us. In science, more perhaps than in any other study, the dead and the living are one.

Charles Singer

Galileo showed men of science that weighing and measuring are worthwhile. Newton convinced a large proportion of them that weighing and measuring are the only investigations that are worthwhile.

Charles Singer

We are always looking for metaphors in which to express our ideas of life, for our language is inadequate for all its complexities. Life is a labyrinth... Life is a machine... Life is a laboratory... It is but a metaphor. When we speak of ultimate things we can, maybe, speak only in metaphors. Life is a dance, a very elaborate and complex dance.

Charles Singer