All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.
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But when science, passing beyond its own limits, assumes to take the place of theology, and sets up its own conception of the order of nature as a sufficient account of its cause, it is invading a province of thought to which it has no claim, and not unreasonably provokes the hostility of its best friends.
Our abiding belief is that just as the workmen in the tunnel of St. Gothard, working from either end, met at last to shake hands in the very central root of the mountain, so students of nature and students of Christianity will yet join hands in the unity of reason and faith, in the heart of their deepest mysteries.
Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne.
What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?
Science is a good piece of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber, provided he has common sense on the ground floor.
Holding then to science with one hand—the left hand—we give the right hand to religion, and cry: "Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things, more wondrous than the shining worlds can tell." Obedient to the promise, religion does waken faculties within us, does teach our eyes to the beholding of more wonderful things. Those great worlds blazing like suns die like feeble stars in the glory of the morning, in the presence of this new light. The soul knows that an infinite sea of love is all about it, throbbing through it, everlasting arms of affection lift it, and it bathes itself in the clear consciousness of a Father's love.
A man cannot well stand by himself, and so he is glad to join a party;
to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
lifeless word stamped on the memory.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
too, because they stand in so much need of it.
thinking and expressing themselves after their own fashion?
suggests more than it grants.
oneself and others is retrospective discovery.
maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
peculiar charm of novelty and wear a fresh air.
likelihood the insoluble problem lies midway between them.
there is room enough for error to go forth and prevail.
conduct than in our thought.
recant is driven to despair.
it; when he hears it only talked about, he has no thoughts at all.
mankind's want of progress.
authority for everything.
the right to build afresh wherever we will.
prevalent opinion, or carried away by fashion.
from life, and return thither only by a roundabout way.
experiences into a general and connected whole.
it; and afterwards to work it out and carry it further.
anything that they can perceive its value.
are keen, adroit, and practical.
statement of the case is complete and clearly set forth by the evidence.
opinion coincides with that of the foreman or not.
minds or hearts of others.
There is much that is true which does not admit of being calculated;
of a decisive experiment.
otherwise be brought to light should be brought to light in him.
modify them all before he can in any way assimilate them to himself?
To a new truth there is nothing more hurtful than an old error.
physics, exists with it, and will be after it.
a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it;
have pledged myself never again to expose a proceeding of this kind.
blessed assurance of the eternal harmony of things.
comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
There are pedants who are also rascals, and they are the worst of all.
object in question and two subjects.
hypothetical boundaries of my own narrow individuality.
gift of observation. What wonderful eyes the Greeks had for many things!
mistake of all times, and still made in our own day.
more numerous are the problems that make their appearance.
certain and keep a watch on what is uncertain.
to hand down what people think they have known.
has said it once, the world would have been quite different.
which his endeavour is to create a special world suited to himself.
common weal or woe, but in things which cannot touch them at all.
least knowing their own mind.
and gazing at the growing light with joy, but also with impatience;
unable to bear the splendour he had awaited with so much desire.
syntheses which prevail, and to analyse their contents anew.
however foolish and silly it may be.