Quotes About Human

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

Natural selection must be replaced by eugenical artificial selection. This idea constitutes the sound core of eugenics, the applied science of human betterment.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

Economics is the science which studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

Every blade of grass is a blade of grace, a grace note in God's single Song. Nature is not blind and dumb. Nature is eloquent. Human science is blind and dumb if it does not hear this eloquence.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.