St. George Jackson Mivart Quotes

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Reason cannot be satisfied until it has probed, to the utmost of its power, the depths of science itself, and either ascertained what is and must be its ultimate foundations, or assured itself that such fundamental knowledge is beyond the scope and power of human endeavor.

St. George Jackson Mivart
To know anything whatever, is to know that it is distinct from something else.

St. George Jackson Mivart
The scientific spirit is, above all, an inquiring spirit. It can never rest satisfied with what has become known, but must ever press on in all directions into fields of truth yet unexplored, and even seek to ascend into regions commonly deemed inaccessible to human research.

St. George Jackson Mivart
Every science is a definitely organised system of recognised relations between thoughts and objects, between thoughts and thoughts, and between objects and objects; and no science can be learned save by the aid of language, spoken, written, or both.

St. George Jackson Mivart
This science [epistemology] of the grounds and groundwork of science is one to the study of which gifted minds are spontaneously impelled, as ordinary minds are impelled to acquire at least the rudiments of ordinary scientific truth.

St. George Jackson Mivart
It is not enough for the true man of science to be acquainted with many sciences, and to reflect on the knowledge he so possesses. The rational mind sooner or later seeks to know what is the basis of his own knowledge and the ultimate groundwork of all science.

St. George Jackson Mivart
The difference between science and ordinary knowledge is no difference of kind but merely one of degree. Science is nothing more than plain reason and common sense used in a methodical manner and applied to the examination of various objects around us, with as much exactness as possible.

St. George Jackson Mivart
The study of that which is thus common to all things, is the study of mathematics; and therefore mathematics, or the science of number, is and must be the most fundamental of all sciences, since it pertains to every other, and no other can be pursued without it.

St. George Jackson Mivart