George William Gray Quotes

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The frontiers of science are man's frontiers. They are his hard-won outposts against the darkness. And that darkness, the ignorance of the mysterious universe of things which surrounds us and of the equally mysterious universe of consciousness which pervades us, is the enemy, the only ultimate enemy.

George William Gray
Theory is built on experiment, and experiment and discovery are guided by theory; science is forever stumbling forward from one approximation to a closer one, and the story of knowledge is a record of continual change.

George William Gray
Perhaps the Earth is a clod, but if so it is a vibrant clod, responsive to an endless symphony — or cacophony — of cosmic influences.

George William Gray
Our knowledge of nature is limited by our ability to apprehend the materials and the forces which meet us — both those of the Earth, which we encounter in their hurrying to and fro, and those of the Universe outside, which beat upon us from the stars and the darkness beyond the stars.

George William Gray
The modern scientist is like a detective who finds clues, but never gets a glimpse of the fugitive he seeks.

George William Gray
Nature seems to be held in a mathematical web of relationship; and as we penetrate deeper into its infinite world of secrecy the relationships become more purely mathematical, and less obviously material or physically perceptual.

George William Gray
No truth is sacrosanct. No belief is too generally accepted, too well established by experiment, to escape the challenge of doubt. And no doubt is too radical to receive a hearing if it is seriously proposed.

George William Gray
Within the limits of nature's law, a man is free to mold his future. By design he may increase the probability of a desired outcome. And so we say that destiny is a choice, a selection among alternative destinies. But the selection cannot be left to accident; it is not fortuitous, automatic, foolproof. Man himself must choose.

George William Gray
The future of science does not mean the future of gadgets - though the gadgets will come, for better or for worse, you can bank on that.

George William Gray
Science is not only for illumination, for the mastery of nature's resources and the improvement of man's estate, it is also for the satisfaction of the soul.

George William Gray