Josiah Parsons Cooke Quotes

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Language is the medium of thought, and cannot be separated from it. He who would think well must have a good command of language, and he who has the best command of language I am almost tempted to say will think the best.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
The beauty of Nature is infinite, and the more we study her works the more her loveliness unfolds.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
The university should be the center of scientific investigation and literary culture, the nursery of lofty aspirations and noble thoughts, and thus should become the soul of the higher life of the nation.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
[If] we would become imbued with the spirit of the new philosophy of chemistry, we must begin by believing in molecules.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
In every physical science we have carefully to distinguish between the facts which form its subject-matter and the theories by which we attempt to explain these facts, and group them in our scientific systems.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
To study the natural sciences merely as a collection of interesting facts which it is well for every educated man to know, seldom serves a useful purpose. The young mind becomes wearied with the details, and soon forgets what it has never more than half acquired.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
In science there is not only a wrong way, but this wrong way is so easy and alluring that you will most certainly stray into it unless you strive earnestly to keep out of it.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
Great discoveries are not Achieved in an hour or a day. Nature has so concealed her truths, and surrounded them by so many adventitious circumstances, that they can be disclosed to the world only after long and careful study.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
Honor those who seek Knowledge for her own sake, and remember they are the great heroes of the world, who work in faith, and leave the result with God!

Josiah Parsons Cooke
The elementary principles and more conspicuous facts of chemistry are so intimately associated with the experience of every-day life, and find such important applications in the useful arts, that no man at the present day can be regarded as educated who is ignorant of them.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
Nature at once manifests and conceals an Infinite Presence: her methods and orderly successions are the manifestations of Omnipotent Will; her contrivances and laws the embodiment of Omniscient Thought.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
In following out our theories of education, we avoid Scylla only to encounter Charybdis, and so, in specializing our courses of laboratory instruction, there is great danger of falling into the mechanical routine of a technical art, and losing sight of those grand ideas and generalizations which give breadth and dignity to scientific knowledge.

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The path to the great truths which Nature hides often leads through a far denser and a more bewildering forest... but then there is not infrequently a "blaze" on the trees which points out the way, although it may require a sharp eye in a clear head to see the marks.

Josiah Parsons Cooke
Science offers us not only a mass of phenomena to be observed, but also a body of truths which have been deduced from these observations; and, without the power of drawing correct inferences from the data acquired, exact observations would be of little value.

Josiah Parsons Cooke