Quotes About Man

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.

…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

A single smile of man is a thousand defeat of the devil!

Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.

Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.