It is the tendency of the study of science to make us patient, humble and attentive to the smallest things. Is not this part of religion? (John Lancaster Spalding)

It is the tendency of the study of science to make us patient, humble and attentive to the smallest things. Is not this part of religion?

John Lancaster Spalding

Related topics

humble patient religion science study tendency things

Related quotes

The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. View quote
Paul Dirac
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. View quote
Hippocrates
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. View quote
Scott Adams
There are things worth being loyal to, surely. Coffee, for instance, or one's religion. View quote
John Galsworthy