John Arthur Thomson Quote

Although science is not in itself practical, anymore than artistic or emotional, there is a practical note in its ideal. Knowledge for knowledge's sake is not a humanly satisfying motive, though the idea often fills the horizon for an hour, or a day, a year, or a life-time, according to the nature of the man.


In: James Edward Hand, Ideals of Science & Faith


Although science is not in itself practical, anymore than artistic or emotional, there is a practical note in its ideal. Knowledge for knowledge's...

Although science is not in itself practical, anymore than artistic or emotional, there is a practical note in its ideal. Knowledge for knowledge's...

Although science is not in itself practical, anymore than artistic or emotional, there is a practical note in its ideal. Knowledge for knowledge's...

Although science is not in itself practical, anymore than artistic or emotional, there is a practical note in its ideal. Knowledge for knowledge's...