Stephen Coleridge Quotes

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How often, without challenge, in modern writings and speech, is Science elevated above sentiment!

Stephen Coleridge
For such [mathematical] exercises of the mind pursued with determination render it averse from poetry, and all the imaginative study of human affairs, preclude it from appreciating all the loveliness of life, leave it untouched by the sanguine emotions, and quite indifferent to the glamour of the arts, or to the divine gift of taste.

Stephen Coleridge
An hypothesis nothing more is advanced by the scientific that man is no more than an improved arboreal ape, and all the bishops, priests and deacons tumble over one another in their haste to endorse the degrading doctrine and to accept a gorilla as the origin of mankind.

Stephen Coleridge
The binomial theorem, trigonometry, conic sections, and all the rest of the higher mathematics are fields of knowledge that can be acquired with dreary labour by anyone who persistently applies his mind to them.

Stephen Coleridge
When I speak of a scientific education I mean an education that of necessity is confined to an acquisition only of those branches of knowledge comprised in the immutable laws that are implicit in matter organic or inorganic, and in the human conceptions of number, space, dimension, motion and force.

Stephen Coleridge
The dominant object of a truly noble education is to make man magnanimous, and brave, and loyal, and truthful, and unselfish and merciful, and in all things to look up instead of down.

Stephen Coleridge
The Church by no mental contortions or intellectual gymnastics can ever reconcile the dull negative assertions of Science with the spiritual aspirations of Religion, the noble altruisms of Christianity, or the divine visions of the philosophers.

Stephen Coleridge