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The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook which the human race had yet encountered. Since a babe was born in a manger, it may be doubted whether so great a thing has happened with so little stir. - Science and the Modern World, said about the birth of modern science [Science] It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. - Science and the Modern World (ch. 1) [Investigation] We cannot think and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. - Science and the Modern World (ch. 12) [Thought : Action] If you have had your attention directed to the novelties in thought in your own lifetime, you will have observed that almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced, and almost any idea which jogs you out of your current abstractions may be better than nothing. - Science and the Modern World (ch. 3) [Ideas : Novelty] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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