John Ruskin Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Facts, Appearance

  Stones of Venice Vol. III, Ch. II

• See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Teaching, Science

• Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Science, Soul

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Science, Use

  John Ruskin (1897*). “Stones of Venice”

• Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Science, Men

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.36

• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Greek, Wish

  John Ruskin (1800). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture: Also, Lectures on Architecture and Painting; The Study of Architecture; Sesame and Lilies; Unto this Last; The Queen of the Air; The Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century”

• Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

  John Ruskin

  Science, Deals

  John Ruskin (1867). “The stones of Venice.-3 vol”, p.39

• Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

  John Ruskin

  Science, People, Quiet

  John Ruskin (1871). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Index”, p.37

• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Encouragement, Teaching, Science

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

• 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.

  John Ruskin

  God, Nature, Science

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, Science, Law

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