Simon Newcomb Quote

Its [science] animating spirit is love of truth. Its pride is to do the greatest good to the greatest number. It embraces not only the whole human race but all nature in its scope.


Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science, Chapter XVIII (p. 298), Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1906


Its [science] animating spirit is love of truth. Its pride is to do the greatest good to the greatest number. It embraces not only the whole human...

Its [science] animating spirit is love of truth. Its pride is to do the greatest good to the greatest number. It embraces not only the whole human...

Its [science] animating spirit is love of truth. Its pride is to do the greatest good to the greatest number. It embraces not only the whole human...

Its [science] animating spirit is love of truth. Its pride is to do the greatest good to the greatest number. It embraces not only the whole human...