Quotes About Man

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.

Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

The statistician cannot excuse himself from the duty of getting his head clear on the principles of scientific inference, but equally no other thinking man can avoid a like obligation.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

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

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

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

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

Man's Place in Nature.