Moses Harvey Quotes

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Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.

Moses Harvey
It [science] has largely dispersed that dread of nature, which is the offspring of ignorance, and the fruitful parent of superstition with its progeny of woes. It has taught man to look fearlessly into the face of nature, and see there a divine order and beauty, not the features of a ferocious monster, "red in tooth and claw."

Moses Harvey
The face of nature is veiled, and it is for man, who had been so wondrously endowed for the task by his Creator, reverently yet fearlessly to lift the veil, and gaze into that awful but lovely face which dimly yet truly mirrors the Omnipotent One.

Moses Harvey
True Science is always modest and humble; always cherishes a deep reverence for facts, and is always ready to correct her own interpretations as a clearer light is reached. As she conquers one realm after another, she recognizes that these are but fringes of the great realms of the unknown which lie beyond.

Moses Harvey
Not at once, or even readily, does nature disclose the secret laws and processes by which she works. Like the fabled Sphinx of old she propounds her riddles; and man, the intellectual monad, is the interpreter whose powers are at once taxed and developed by the demands she makes.

Moses Harvey
True science being thus the interpretation of nature, must of necessity be imperfect, though progressive; and from feeble beginnings, and through many mistakes arising from an imperfect acquaintance with facts, she has to correct her stammering utterances, as she attempts to read the hieroglyphics of the universe.

Moses Harvey
We hail Science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.

Moses Harvey