John Henry Newman Quote

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.


Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin (1852), Discourse 5


A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought...

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought...

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought...

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought...