Seneca the Younger Quotes About Science

• When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

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  Science, Sky, Tree

• Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

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  Science, Giving, Firsts

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• Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

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  Science, Danger, Cures

• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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  Education, Giving Up, Science

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• There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

  Seneca the Younger

  Eye, Science, Power

• Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Science

• On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

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  God, Nature, Stars

• How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Science, Discovery

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