Frank Edwin Egler Quotes

9 Sourced Quotes

Science... ever [reflects] a faith in the intelligibility of nature.

Frank Edwin Egler

For all their value, the application of a method, alone, is not science, any more than a pile of bricks is architecture. I would sooner trust a good mind without a method than a good method without a mind.

Frank Edwin Egler

Dazed with this brightness of our technology, I wonder if some are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in science must always be the mind of man.

Frank Edwin Egler

Knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is knowledge when it is tempered by judgment.

Frank Edwin Egler

Science is a product of man, of his mind; and science creates the real world in its own image.

Frank Edwin Egler

Genius knows no method, tho it leaves a spoor-method for drones to follow.

Frank Edwin Egler

A concept is nothing more than an idea, a mental creation, which makes comprehensible a certain group of facts.

Frank Edwin Egler

Reality is not what is; it is what the layman wishes it to be.

Frank Edwin Egler

Concepts are games we play with our heads; methods are games we play with our hands, which at times are so handy they can be played without a head.

Frank Edwin Egler

Frank Edwin Egler

Frank Edwin Egler

Born: April 26, 1911

Died: December 26, 1996 (aged 85)

Bio: Frank Edwin Egler was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation science. He is of historical significance through his assistance to Rachel Carson in preparing Silent Spring.

Frank Edwin Egler on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quote

American Biologist Quotes

Biologist Quotes

20th-century Biologist Quotes