Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Motivational, Horse

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2008). “Answers to Real Problems: Harry Emerson Fosdick Speaks to Our Time: Selected Sermons of Harry Emerson Fosdick”, p.160, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• ...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio is an amazing invention. Yet now that it is here, one suspects that Hitler never could have consolidated his totalitarian control over Germany without its use. One never can tell what hands will reach out to lay hold on scientific gifts, or to what employment they will be put. Ever the old barbarian emerges, destructively using the new civilization.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Science, Hands, Civilization

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

• The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of its wonders is among the noblest poetry of the race, but today the new science has opened to our eyes vistas of mystery that transcend in their inexplicable marvel anything the ancients ever dreamed.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Dream, Jobs, Eye

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

• We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms of the framework which our new knowledge gives us. Science forces religion to deal with new ideas in the theoretical realm and new forces in the practical realm.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Science

• Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: "Not my will, but thine, be done." What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spring, Mean, Science

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

• Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Science, Men, Years

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

• One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Science, Civilization, Shepherds

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

• Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Change, God, Stars

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