Henry Margenau Quotes

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I recognize no subjects and no facts which are alleged to be forever closed to inquiry or understanding: a mystery is but a challenge.

Henry Margenau
A forest of facts unordered by concepts and constructive relations may be cherished for its existential appeal, its vividness, or its nausea; yet it is meaningless and cognitively unavailing unless it be organized by reason.

Henry Margenau
Human experience in its immediacy, in its factual character, is like the liquid matrix before the crystal grows - unorganized, irregular, and largely bare of meaning.

Henry Margenau
A quest for the real inspires... the scientist with curiosity and zeal for new adventures; it sets the mind of the philosopher to a contemplation of past pinnacles of thought; it leads the historian to scrutinize the recorded deeds of man for constant patterns.

Henry Margenau
The greatest thrill for a scientist comes not when he has demonstrated a conjecture to be valid but when a departure from expectations convinces him that an accepted theory is wrong.

Henry Margenau
It is in fact obvious that science should be pressed to say all it can about any problem which is at all susceptible to scientific treatment.

Henry Margenau
To gain knowledge of general principles by way of abstract exposition is a possible but not an expeditious course. It seems wiser to approach them with a large but well-defined project in view, a project which calls for continued and varied application of the principles to be studied, and which may serve at once as goal and as illustration.

Henry Margenau
Science has no boundaries; it has an horizon which widens as science advances, placing in view more and more unknown terrain but never heaven.

Henry Margenau