Forest Ray Moulton Quotes

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Science does not bow down before precedent nor custom nor dogma; it exalts the truth and honestly seeks it.

Forest Ray Moulton
There are transcendental questions which, from their nature, can never be answered with certainty, but which the human mind ever persists in attacking. Among such questions is that of the infinity of the physical universe in space and in time.

Forest Ray Moulton
Many a chemist, physicist, biologist, psychologist, and historian, as well as monk, has had as his first and only love The Truth, and as it his greatest reward the approval of his own conscience.

Forest Ray Moulton
Truth is the offspring of silence and unbroken meditation.

Forest Ray Moulton
There is not in sight any source of energy that would be a fair start toward that which would be necessary to get us beyond the gravitative control of the earth.

Forest Ray Moulton
Now we find ourselves a part of a Universal Order of which we did not dream and whose alphabet we are just beginning to learn. Instead of shrinking it to our measure, we contemplate its infinite orderliness and set no limits to the goal our race may hope to attain.

Forest Ray Moulton
The orderliness of the universe is the supreme discovery in science; it is that which gives us hope that we shall be able to understand not only the exterior would but also our own bodies and our own mind.

Forest Ray Moulton
In an age when the world is so largely run by the results of scientific effort it is almost superfluous to speak of the value of science. If the things which science has contributed to our everyday use and which make life at the present time pleasant for us were removed, we should speedily understand the immense debt we owe to it.

Forest Ray Moulton
I have heard the great geologist Suess, a man of the widest interests and richest imagination, describe a certain astronomer as "one of those who busy themselves with those vermin of the skies - minor planets and comets." The Semi-centennial of the Dearborn Observatory

Forest Ray Moulton
The eye of the fabled Cyclops was not even prophetic of the great telescope at Mt. Wilson, the pupil of whose eye, so to speak, is 100 inches in diameter.

Forest Ray Moulton
The innumerable members of our galaxy assure us, however, that though the stars may be evaporating, so to speak, like the dew, their energies will in some way be integrated again.

Forest Ray Moulton
It is a mistake to regard science in itself as the opposite of art. There are in all branches of science harmonies and beauties which appeal strongly to those who fully understand them.

Forest Ray Moulton
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Forest Ray Moulton
If the sun were created expressly to light and heat the earth, what a waste of energy!

Forest Ray Moulton