William Whewell Quotes
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Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.
— William Whewell
A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.
— William Whewell
In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
— Gerald McRaney
You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.'
— Michael K. Williams
Sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
— Irvin D. Yalom
In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Humility sets us free to do what is really good, by showing us our illusions and withdrawing our will from what was only an apparent good.
— Thomas Merton
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
— William Whewell
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.
— William Whewell
To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.
— Napoleon Hill
And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.
— William Whewell
Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.
— William Whewell
An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
— Jeff VanderMeer
every failure is a step to success!
— William Whewell
Only you can tip the scale,
— Barbara Longley
There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.
— William Whewell
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
— William Whewell
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
— William Whewell