Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin Quotes

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Space has commonly been pictured as an unbounded receptacle for all that is and all that takes place, and time, as the tally sheet of the onsweep of an active world. Free room for the great deployments of the cosmos have been thought to be offered by unlimited space and ample duration for their evolutions in unrestricted time.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
It is as important to withhold assent, when the proof is inadequate, as to yield assent when it is ample.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Falsity in intellectual action is intellectual immorality.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
The mind lingers with pleasure upon the facts that fall happily into the embrace of the theory, and feels a natural coldness toward those that seem refractory..

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
As happens always in science, it is the facts that pull the thoughts to the bottom of the sea of oblivion.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
There is no nobler aspiration of the human intellect than desire to compass the cause of things. The disposition to find explanations and to develop theories is laudable in itself. It is only ill use that is reprehensible. The vitality of study quickly disappears when the object sought is a mere collection of dead unmeaning facts.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
That which passes under the name earth-science is not all science in the strict sense of the term. Not a little consists of generalizations from incomplete data, of inferences hung on chains of uncertain logic, of interpretations not beyond question, of hypotheses not fully verified, and of speculation none too substantial.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
The distinction between scientific study and the study of science is much the same as that between creative scholarship and acquisitive scholarship; between modern research and ancient erudition.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Affection may as easily cling about a beloved intellectual child under the name of a working hypothesis as under any other, and may become a ruling passion.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Above all material acquisitions, above all intellectual attainments, above even the refinements of culture, in the esteem and endeavor of true educators, rises the moral exaltation of an individual or of a people.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
The scientific childintraining should foreshadowthe scientific man in creative work.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
In pioneer days, when the sciences were struggling for a place in the sun, it fell to geology to pull up and set back the stakes that man had struck to mark the beginning of the earth. This seemed to many a moving of sacred landmarks; to others it seemed a wanton use of the secrets of the cemetery of nature's dead.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
It is as foolish to cultivate sterile soil in science as in agriculture, and preliminary tests may show that given soils are necessarily sterile.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
Narrow and loose habits of thought, prejudiced attitudes towards evidence, bias from previous opinions and feelings, shallowness and superficiality in observation, and carelessness in reasoning are appropriate subjects of moral reproof.

Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin