Anatole France Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

  Anatole France

  God, Science, Names

• We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was the centre of the Universe, and that all the heavenly bodies revolved around it. He could feel beneath his feet the writhings of the damned amid the flames; very likely he had seen with his own eyes and smelt with his own nostrils the sulphurous fumes of Hell escaping from some fissure in the rocks. Looking upwards, he beheld ... the incorruptible firmament, wherein the stars hung like so many lamps.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Eye, Science

• Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.

  Anatole France

  Knowledge, Science, Men

• I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Knowledge, Science

• The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Science, Men

  Anatole France, James Lewis May, Bernard Miall (1926). “The works of Anatole France in an English translation”

• The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

  Anatole France

  Nature, Science, Men

• Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one grain of sand in the wheels is enough to put everything out of gear. One shudders to think to what disaster such a grain of sand may bring a Mathematical brain. Remember Pascal.

  Anatole France

  Science, Thinking, Sublime

  Anatole France (1920). “The garden of Epicurus”

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