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Science: Quotations from Burning Words

All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.— J. C. RYLE

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.— M. B. CARPENTER

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.— LEMUEL MOSS

Believe in God, and bid all knowledge speed. Sooner or later the full harmony will reveal itself, the discords and contradictions disappear. 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.— E. H. CHAPIN

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?— EDWARD THOMSON

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.— O. W. HOLMES

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.— BISHOP H. W. WARREN

It is better to inspire the heart with a noble sentiment than to teach the mind a truth of science.