William Whewell Quotes

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

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell

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

The catastrophist constructs theories, the uniformitarian demolishes them. — 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

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. — William Whewell

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