George Santayana Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

  George Santayana

  Time, Nature, Science

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

• The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually brought into conformity with the facts by the painful process of selection,-for intuition runs equally into truth and into error, and can settle nothing if not controlled by experience,-we gain vastly in our command over our environment. This is the fundamental value of natural science

  George Santayana

  Running, Science, Errors

  George Santayana (2004). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.22, Cosimo, Inc.

• Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Religious, Science

• The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

  George Santayana

  Science, Progress, Body

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.106, Рипол Классик

• Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

  George Santayana

  Science, Common Sense, Perception

  The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, Ch. 11

• I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

  George Santayana

  Truth, Lying, Believe

  George Santayana (2003). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.338, MIT Press

• Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

  George Santayana

  Ignorance, Science, Facts

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.78, Courier Corporation

• To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered what they had heard about astronomy, and the great size and distance and possible habitation of those orbs. ... [We] persuade ourselves that the power of the starry heavens lies in the suggestion of astronomical facts.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.64, Courier Corporation

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