John Arthur Thomson - Outline of science (1910)

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The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

John Arthur Thomson
The Evolution-idea is a master-key that opens many doors. It is a luminous interpretation of the world, throwing the light of the past upon the present.

John Arthur Thomson
The opposition between science and feeling is largely a misunderstanding. As one of our philosophers has remarked, Science is in a true sense "one of the humanities."

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Obeying the living hand of the past which is within them.

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The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

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The picture of the Universe which the astronomer offers to us is imperfect; the lines he traces are often faint and uncertain. There are many problems which have been solved, there are just as many about which there is doubt, and notwithstanding our great increase in knowledge, there remain just as many which are entirely unsolved.

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Great stores of wealth are awaiting the scientific "Open Sesame"; a great heightening of the standard of health will be attainable in a few generation if men of good-will take science as their torch.

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When science makes minor mysteries disappear, greater mysteries stand confessed. For one object of delight whose emotional value science has inevitably lessened — as Newton damaged the rainbow for Keats — science gives back double.

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Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

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Religious interpretation and scientific description must not be inconsistent, but they are incommensurable.

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Vast as is the Solar System, then, it is excessively minute in comparison with the Stellar System, the universe of the Stars, which is on a scale far transcending anything the human mind can apprehend.

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Science is always setting forth on Columbus voyages, discovering new worlds and conquering them by understanding.

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The shore is almost noisy with the conjugation of the verb to eat in its many tenses.

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