John Ruskin Quotes About Science
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I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.
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Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
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The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
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Geology does better in reclothing dry bones and revealing lost creations, than in tracing veins of lead and beds of iron; astronomy better in opening to us the houses of heaven than in teaching navigation; surgery better in investigating organiation than in setting limbs; only it is ordained that, for our encouragement, every step we make in science adds something to its practical applicabilities.
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Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.
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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.
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See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.
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Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
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Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
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Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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