William Whewell Quotes
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Best 10 Quotes by William Whewell
“Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.”
“Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.”
“Those who have obtained the farthest insight into nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.”
Elements of Morality Quotes
“We cannot observe external things without some degree of thought; nor can we reflect upon our thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.”
History of the Inductive Sciences Quotes
“Astronomy is the only progressive science which the ancient world produced.”
“The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.”
Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England Quotes
“Every failure is a step to success.”
Novum Organon Renovatum Quotes
“The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them.”
The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences Quotes
“There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.”
“We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist.”
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“So many think incorrectly that everything was created by the Creator in the beginning as it is seen. That not only the mountains, valleys, and waters, but also various types of minerals occurred together with the rest of the world.
And therefore it is said that it is unnecessary to investigate the reasons why they differ in their internal properties and their locations. Such considerations are very dangerous for the growth of all the sciences, and hence for natural knowledge of the Earth, particularly the art of mining
Though it is very easy for those clever people to be philosophers, having learnt by heart the three words 'God so created' and to give them in reply in place of all reasons.”
William Whewell Sources
- All quotes by William Whewell (10 quotes)
- Elements of Morality (1 quote)
- History of the Inductive Sciences (2 quotes)
- Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England (1 quote)
- Novum Organon Renovatum (1 quote)
- The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (2 quotes)
- Other quotes by William Whewell (3 quotes)
