Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Confidence, Art, Math

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

• The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Science, Self

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

• Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Art, Science, May

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

• Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Science, Long

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1955). “The Voice of the Desert: A Naturalist's Interpretation”, National Academies

• Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Sex, Eye, Science

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.28, University of Iowa Press

• Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Technology, Men

  1949 The Twelve Seasons,'February'.

• If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Animal, Survival

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.22, University of Iowa Press

• Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Science, Men, Religion

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