Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal. [ Emerson ]
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Why should not a scientific convention harmonize the letters of the alphabet with the sounds of the languages? [ J. A. Weisse ]
There is no such thing as good influence. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Good resolutions are a useless attempt to interfere with scientific laws; their origin pure vanity, their results absolutely nil. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. [ Horace Mann ]
Each department of knowledge passes in succession through three different theoretic stages: the theologic stage, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; the scientific, or positive. [ A. Comte ]
Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts men on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes a pleasure of duty. [ Bishop Doane ]
Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct - that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.